To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.

Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.

Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.

It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

In urban America, you do not so much meet a romantic partner as inherit the product of someone else's romantic crimes.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.

Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature.

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.

It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it.