There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

Before we can change our condition, we have to change our thoughts.

Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

There is no good reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

He only who gave life has a power over it.