Ode to Chocolate

"Every now and then I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people. . . "   -- Steve Almond

"Chocolate is a permanent thing."  Milton S. Hershey

"Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and LOVE!" -- Karl Petzke

"If there's no chocolate in heaven, I'm not going." -- Jane Seabrook

"Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!"  -- Sandra J. Dykes

"Nothing heals the soul like chocolate. . . "  -- Richard Paul Evans