"There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes."

“Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.”

“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.”

Source : Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.41, Penguin

“In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.”

“Fate is a story that's been written for you by somebody else. By your parent's genes, by what happened to you when you were a child, by your culture, by the fact that you were born a man or a woman. Destiny is a story that you write.”

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

“It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.44

“Perfection is often the enemy of greatness”

Source : "CoverGirl Janelle Monáe Isn't Afraid to Fail". Interview with Hayley Mason, www.totalbeauty.com.

“There are many people in the industry that know nothing about games.”

Source : "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" by Matt Casamassina, www.ign.com. March 14, 2006.