I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.

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.

Camomille: Fallible men write books. God writes in sunlight and rivers and planets. Isn't the Universe a good book? I trust it above the printed kind.

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

The serve was invented so that the net could play.

If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos, there will be genocide, and they will follow us home.

As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

I've been given an opportunity right now and I'm going to run through a wall to try to take advantage of it.

We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.

Michael Cole is a visionary!