How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.

I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end