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

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.

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

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

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the bosoms of those who, among their equals, are regarded as humane and generous.

In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn’t the end.

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love