I don't limit myself.

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.

Changing your attitude, your outlook, your mindset, perspective, disposition, or mood—they all mean controlling where you allow your thoughts to linger.

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer.

I don't go out and play football and stuff - that's not me. I want to think, I want to build, I want to talk, I want to create.

The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.