If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.
I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier one apart; love is the reason why you choose a life with someone, and you don't turn back although your heart cries sometimes and your children see you cry and you wish out loud that things were easier. Love is getting up each day and fighting the same fight only to sleep that night in the same bed beside the same person because long ago, when you were younger and you did not see so clearly, you had chosen them.
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.