There was once a king, and he had a queen; and he was the manliest of his gender, and she was the loveliest of hers. They had nineteen children, and were always having more.

But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.

Charlene Costanzo

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

Oscar Wilde

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Mason Cooley

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

Ambrose Bierce

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

P. J. O'Rourke

Old age is the verdict of life.

Amelia E. Barr

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.

Tom Vilsack

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship

Samuel Johnson

What I can do, I will do. What I can't do, I will surrender to the one that can.

E'yen A. Gardner

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Alan King

One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

Charlie Trotter