Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

The greatest dishes are very simple.

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

People who do not accept the new, grow old very quickly.

Indeed, stock is everything in cooking. Without it, nothing can be done.

Good food is the basis of true happiness

Above all, keep it simple.

So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.

Burn, burn, burn to become the light, to enlighten the whole world.

On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.

So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself.

When the teacher, the spiritual master, is praying for the mercy of the Lord to enlighten the student, then by the blessings of the Lord the student gets the blessing of knowledge.

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.