Ideas are the source of all things

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.