Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.

Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.

I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.

Side by side we'll fight the tide, That sweeps in to take us down.Hand in hand we'll both withstand, Even as we drown.

We one and all of us have an instinct to pray and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

Miracle me no miracles.

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.