“Less is more.”   Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.”   Ron Ben-Israel

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”   Romain Rolland

“Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.”   Beverley Mitchell

“Forget the past.”   Nelson Mandela

“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.  I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”   Walter Anderson

“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.”   Deepak Chopra

“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”   Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.”   Margaret Mead

“Great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.   Loved for ourselves and even loved in spite of ourselves.”  Victor Hugo