Get up every day and try a little harder than the day before.

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal.

Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got to eat the food.

If you don't follow your dream, who will?

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Spice is life. It depends upon what you like... have fun with it. Yes, food is serious, but you should have fun with it.

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.

The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.

Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.

A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.