I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future.

Cooking is revolution and creation.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.