I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances. – Benjamin Franklin
Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but its rarely driving the car. – Jonathan Safran Foer
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a universal without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. – Chaim Potok