The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

With success, if you don't plan and just take each day as it comes, there will come failure.

God is not supposed to fix the earth, he created man for that.

The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.

We never really did anything just for fun.

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your career. Then take action on at least one of them.

Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.