... privation is the source of appetite.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance.

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Today I am even richer.

A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.

You are either growing up or going down

To be or not to be, that is the choice

This will never come again

His heart was as great as the world but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.

We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.