I've never really had a problem with people.

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.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Our legacy is not found in all the 'stuff' we’ve accumulated on our life’s journey. It’s written in the memories of those whose lives we’ve touched along the way.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

Whatever you do, just don't stand still. Make the changes you need today, so you can live the life you want, tomorrow.

When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.

I won’t die like this again. (Zarek) Backbone. How I love it. But not as much as I love sucking the marrow from it. (Thanatos)

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.