Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

To me faith means not worrying.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables.

In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had cuisine minceur, which people mixed up with nouvelle cuisine but was actually fancy diet cooking.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook 'la cuisine bourgeoise' - good, traditional French home cooking.

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Know or listen to those who know.