The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

George Henry Lewes

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. (Psalms 109:4)

Bible

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

Danny Glover

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

Tom Brady

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

John Cleese

A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Phillip H. Haberman Jr.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

Ivan Pavlov

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

J.K. Rowling

When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages.

Nizar Qabbani

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Sigmund Freud

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Diamond Sutra