"My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis"

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers"

"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"