Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you're not really teaching them anything.

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.

Life will be empty without great stories to read.

Happiness resides in your mind, brain, heart and tongue. Connect all four and you’ll live in bliss.

Isn't it strange that it took so long to realize that all you needed to change was your attitude.

I had a dream about you. I licked your cone of ice cream. It was envelope flavored.

I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great.

The best form of saying is doing.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

It's simply not true that Donald Trump has no experience in foreign affairs. Hell, two of his foreign affairs resulted in marriages!