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

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.

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.

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

In you is the ability that will move you from nonentity and mediocrity to an entity of meteority. Take responsiblity now!

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

In his press conference last night, President Bush said he could not remember a single mistake he had made in the last two years. The president's exact quote was: 'I ain't make none mistakes ever.'

Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. “I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I’m with you. Just tell me what I have to do.