I adore food and always have.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes

Friedrich Nietzsche

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

Leon Trotsky

Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

Orlando Bloom

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Ernest Hemingway

Cela est bien, repondit Candide, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin.

Voltaire

After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

Michel de Montaigne

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Jerry Saltz

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Emma Goldman

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

Dean Koontz

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

John Gay

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.also cited in Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist (1986)

Georgia O'Keeffe, "New York Sun"