I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erik H. Erickson

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Bernard Meltzer

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Michael Symon

Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.

Anon.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Robert Collier

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

Carson Kressley

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

George Burns

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

David Ogden Stiers

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.

Nicole Krauss

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

J. Donald Walters

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Mark Twain

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

Louis Farrakhan