My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older, ’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

Each day begins a new journey of life, for if we awake, there is a reason.

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.

This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the resources to intimidate the United States.

If there is no meaning in it, " said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know.

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.

What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.