In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost.

The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

When you cook, you never stop learning. That's the fascination of it all.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

Or that time she made a snowman in Britt-Marie and Kent’s garden right under their balcony and dressed it up in grown-up clothes so it looked as if a person had fallen from the roof.

When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.

Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

I'm a terrible dancer. Terrible. Just the pits. And I had to do these cheerleading things and it was just cringe-worthy. I mean, I'm so bad, so that was painful.

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there’s another way to live and respond to things.