Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life
...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
Never apologize for your cooking.
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.