I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Life is so endlessly delicious

You only confuse hope with power once in life.

The most deafening sound in all creation, is the sound of absolute silence.

No matter how rough the winds of adversities blow, continue to walk with courage and faith. You are much stronger than you could ever imagine.

Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.