My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Publilius Syrus

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

Charles Manson

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Bill Veeck

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Joseph Addison

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

Wangari Maathai

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

John Keats

I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

Evel Knievel

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

Jane Smiley

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Donald Rumsfeld

Mungkin aja lo pikir, anak-anak dari keluarga miskin itu menderita. Tapi siapa tahu, mereka justru lebih bahagia daripada kita karena mereka nggak terikat materi.

Lexie Xu

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Heinrich Heine