Giving a woman your whole life is meaningless without giving her your whole heart as well.

Don't consider painful what's good for you.

I trust my wife's judgement... That's what Philippe says about Granny, just before all hell breaks loose.

Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.

If you put a clock in a bottle, with time it will crack, as like money, as like love, as like a beautiful mind, empty of a soul.

Tears are the silent passion for suffering

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because "normal" is boring!

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

For goodness sake, look at those cakes.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.