It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

I'm thankful for every moment.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

Word of mouth is the best medium of all.

I can, therefore I am.

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.