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.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Zora Neale Hurston

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

James Laughlin

The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don't celebrate those, they can pass you by.

Alek Wek

Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. . . .If, however, we do not use our anger to define ourselves clearly in every important relationship we are in--and manage our feelings as they arise--no one else will assume this responsibility for us.

Harriet Goldhor Lerner, The Danc

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

Denise Richards

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

Kevin Kelly

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

Wilhelm Reich

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

Newt Gingrich

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Cleveland Amory

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Ambrose Bierce

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Max Beerbohm

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it

Confucius