"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." - Emily Dickinson

"Tea should be taken in solitude." - C.S. Lewis

"Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable." - Ina Garten

"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating." -Luciano Pavarotti

"Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?" -- Chuck Palahniuk