Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.