Cooking done with care is an act of love.

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

It is worth remembering that at some point in the very distant past, no human had ever drank milk from a cow.

To sensible men every day is a day of reckoning.

To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.

Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this would agitate the mind. It will not, if it is the dharma.

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.