My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Karl Kraus

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Samuel Richardson

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Vijay Singh

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the pommel. Sooner juggle torches in a tar pit than mess with real magic. Sooner lie down in front of a thousand elephants.

Terry Pratchett

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

James Truslow Adams

For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

Peace Pilgrim

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Toni Cade Bambara

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

James Thurber

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking.

Stephen King