Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.