The Eighth of September

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ted Ward

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Charles de Gaulle

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

Jacques Pepin

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Ambrose Bierce

Learn to think continentally.

Alexander Hamilton

I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'

Regina Spektor

If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe -no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house. The only way in which we could expect it to show itself would be inside us as an influence or a command trying to get us to behave in a certain way. And that's just what we do find inside us.

C.S. Lewis

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Blaise Pascal

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Walter Bagehot

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

William Shakespeare

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

Oscar Wilde