Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.

In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.