Julia Child

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

Never apologize for your cooking.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

Eating is the secret to good cooking.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

Fake food -- I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut -- is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.

The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of bread one has made, there always seems to be something new to learn.

A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook 'la cuisine bourgeoise' - good, traditional French home cooking.

If you're not ready to fail, you're not going to learn how to cook.

Romance is the icing but love is the cake.

When you flip anything, you really you just have to have the courage of your convictions.

The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.