As the competition goes further along, you start to see who's rising and who's falling.

I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.

Bacon is like a good pair of Levi's-it never goes out of style.

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

Whats more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.

Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.

I think it would be a disaster if Donald Trump is elected. It will also be a disaster if Hillary Clinton is elected.

I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve.

Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don't want to in order to figure out what it is you're supposed to do.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one.