It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

...it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

...in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted by the rituals of the kitchen.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Life is so endlessly delicious

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.

If you wanted candles and romantic music, then you wouldn’t have chosen me.”“Maybe I didn’t choose, ” she dared. “Maybe it just happened.

What could be more intimate than dying with someone?

If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.

The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

This Divine truth flows into heaven from the Lord from His Divine love

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner