A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.

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.

It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.

Preparing to live your dream is postponing it. You are either living it, or not.

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.

When no food is given to the ear, Then let a little be given to the stomach.

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.