Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.

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.

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.

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.

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.

The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.

As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home.