Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

Cooking done with care is an act of love.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

Buddha gives me the strength to bring my words to life and he gives me the strength to share my love of life.

If you cannot lead, do not mislead.

God won´t make a way where there seems to be no faith.

I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.

You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

I tried immediately to have a baby because I was so afraid not to have a baby in my life.

This country maintains that there is no political prisoners, that everybody is criminals, but it's just not true.