"Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No."

“Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.”

“Knowledge can bring many things..but the consciousness of the heart brings love, and love brings everything”

“It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.”

“When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.”

Source : "This Holiday Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us". Interview with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. May 13, 2013.

“If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.373

“Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.”

“I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.”

“Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy”