I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.

Set yourself up for success from the very beginning and then focus on maintaining that success.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.

I wanted so badly to be straight like my friends. But I couldn't change it any more than I could change having brown eyes. And I knew I would never fit into what kids thought was normal.

How do you even speak of, let alone propose regulation of, [any] category [so] full of internal contradictions? . . . Maybe, like so many other things, it is a language problem.

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight indecision a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

China only did the biggest devaluation in 20 years, only for one reason. Because they could get away with it.

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

If you ever find yourself tempted to seek out someone else's opinion on a trade, that's usually a sure sign that you should get out of your position.

I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.