One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

Close your eyes and place your finger on a map. Wherever it lands, that's the theme of the evening. So many times we settle for routine dishes. This forces you to try new cuisines.

Chefs don't actually say 'That's a spicy meat-a-ball,' except to indicate that there's a bomb threat in the restaurant without alarming the customers. Terrorism is the spiciest meatball there is.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

Let me remember you, soon will the winter be on us, Snow-hushed and heartless.

It is easy to hate and blame, but it is divine to love and care.

We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

This is the United States of America that I'm representing. I'm not representing the globe.

So we keep asking, over and over,Until a handful of earthStops our mouths -But is that an answer?

Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.