Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.

He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in the other.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

A consultant to be worth his salt must give honest judgments not necessarily those which he thinks the clients would like to hear.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

Imagine if the whole point of this experience on planet Earth was to just open ourselves up more fully to who we really are, without filters, without masks, without any restrictions.

C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.

I still tune in to the radio and listen to pop music and enjoy it as much as I ever have.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master