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.

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.

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.

Kids are now eating things like edamame and sushi. I didn't know what shiitake mushrooms were when I was 10 - most kids today do.

Too many people live miserable lives, but they don’t do anything to change them.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight.

The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

Despite very harsh living conditions and the trauma of what they went through, they [Sudanese refugees] had a lot of dignity

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.