This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

May you live all the days of your life.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Books, the children of the brain.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

I love being my husband's wife.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

I love being one half of a romantic couple.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

Common sense often makes good law.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect.

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.

Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.