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

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 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.

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

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.

Knowledge doesn't exist in matters of the heart.

Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.

There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

I like girls who eat carrots.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.

I don’t care what you did yesterday. If you’re happy with that, you have bigger problems.

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

When in doubt, do without.