I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

Opportunities present themselves and you have to enjoy the ride. All of us get so worried about the next step that we don't enjoy the moment we're in right now.

You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day.

...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

Disney's really incredible on story.

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.