Cooking is the art of adjustment.

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

One asset every leader, shouldn't risk anything to lose at all cost, is team confidence.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

Celtic is a community institution the supporters are entitled to be proud of.

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

I walk the world in wonder.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.