It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.

The smell of good bread baking like the sound of lightly flowing water is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight.

The smell of good bread baking like the sound of lightly flowing water is indescribable in its evocations of innocence and delight.

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a moderate amount of pain or in love or in robust health or in any kind of business huggermuggery, is minestrone.

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents gave me three old 45s - two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record - and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't.

He that knows no guilt can know no fear.

To succeed in this world, it is not enough to be stupid, you must be well-mannered.

I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

Pain was lifes curveball. Without it we would never appreciate what it felt like to be loved.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

With a strong testimony of the Savior and His restored gospel, you have limitless opportunities to shine.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the same way that the richest, most powerful man in a small town attracts the jealousy of others.

When I started go-karting at the age of six, I always dreamt of becoming a Formula One driver.

I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are.

Crisis can go on to a critical point or turning point where deciding factors plays their games. It is a point to surrender or survive, stay alive or die. You can rise above the storm.

You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.