I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

-Virgil Thomson

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

-Julia Child

And I found someone to walk me through this life/ The brightest sun has opened up my eyes…

-Jon McLaughlin

Thanksgiving is America’s national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.

-Michael Dresser

What is the definition of good wine? It should start and end with a smile.

-William Sokolin

We do not remember days; we remember moments.

-Cesare Pavese

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.

-Bernice Johnson Reagon

Growth means change and change involves risk - stepping from the known to the unknown.

-George Shinn

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate, and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

-William MacNeile Dixon

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give us happiness.

-Thomas Jefferson