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.

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.

Kids are now eating things like edamame and sushi. I didn't know what shiitake mushrooms were when I was 10 - most kids today do.

Authors can alter your life.

A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.

A charming fellow, and so clever: he models himself on me.

And sweet and far as from a star, replied a voice which shall not cease, till drowning all the noise of war, it sings the blessed song of peace

Woah! Calm down, Curly!

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

I've had so much happen, it's hard to trust people.

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.