Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

Soup is the song of the hearth... and the home.

Soup is to the meal, what the hostesses smile of welcome is to the party. A prelude to the goodness to come.

Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.

Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own.

A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,You are soft as the nesting dove.Come to my heart and bring it restAs the bird flies home to its welcome nest.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

It is a living death if one is obsessed by pride, ego and anger.

In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.