In order to keep your husband, you have to make time for him. Rather than going out to dinner, I like to spend time for just the two of us.

Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.

The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.

Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

Opportunities present themselves and you have to enjoy the ride. All of us get so worried about the next step that we don't enjoy the moment we're in right now.

You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

If a person has wisdom, then he will also have the anointing. But sometimes a person with theanointing may not have much wisdom.

Mom was the midwife who delivered stories to me.

Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear I can't lie.

I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."

Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius.

Set a master goal for your running and for your life...

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.