Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

Thomas Frank

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Roland Barthes

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

Patrick Duffy

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

Troy Vincent

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

John Maynard Keynes

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

Orson Scott Card

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

David Gerrold

Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.

Thomas Keller

Never fire a laser at a mirror.

Larry Niven

I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.

Paul Prudhomme

Great minds think alike.

Anon.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Jim Rohn