I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Jean Rostand

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians.

George Santayana, The Life of Re

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples.

Frank B. Kellogg

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

John Ashbery

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

William Blake

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

Alton Brown

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

William J. H. Boetcker

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

Guy Kawasaki

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Peace Pilgrim

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

Diane von Furstenberg

Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso.(Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick)

Proverb