Success feeds confidence.
Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.
To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.
It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested. . . that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.
My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.
The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.
I have learnt more from my failures than my successes.
Be a gift and a benediction.