I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

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.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.

I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.

So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

Let's move forward and fix America's problems.

Nothing works perfectly. The weather doesn't work perfectly. Because of sin in the world, nothing works perfectly. But in spite of that we can find comfort. We can find strength.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.