I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet.

I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in there, get your fingers dirty!

If you're humble and hardworking, opportunities will arise for you.

When you really want to show some love, keep the flowers and say it with spaghetti.

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home.

NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

You can't connect the dots looking forward

It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs.

I did it, and it's all right. Even the worst experiences were right in their time, because otherwise, it wouldn't have come to this point. That was your road, and you had to walk it.

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.