"Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about."

“I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.”

“I wanted to prove people wrong who didn't think I could play at this level. I also wanted to take care of my family. It was a chance to play against the best players in the world. Mentally and physically I don't think I was ready, but I was ready to take on the challenge.”

“It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.”

Source : Avi (1972). “Snail Tale”

“For where's the State beneath the Firmament, That doth excell the Bees for Government?”

Source : Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”

“Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.”

“Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.”

“You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.”

“once upon a time all the rivers combined to protest against the action of the sea in making their waters salt. "When we come to you," sad they to the sea, "we are sweet and drinkable; but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own." The sea replied shortly, "Keep away from me, and you'll remain sweet.”