If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Barbara Walters

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

Lev Grossman

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

William Blake

There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

Giada De Laurentiis

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'

Harold H. Greene

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.

Abraham Lincoln

I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.

Susie Clevenger

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Niccolo Machiavelli

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Life is a dream walking death is a going home.

Chinese Proverb

What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.

Proverb

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

Henry Reed