I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.

The Italian comes to his table with the same open heart with which a child falls into his mother's arms, with the same easy feeling of being in the right place.

And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.

I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.

A distant goal can be achieved day by day.

Holy Scriptures

Exhale the remnants/Of wounds that steal your freedom./No more prisons. Breathe.

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Is heaven a hope or as real as the earth and sky?

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.