It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

My mom said the two most important kitchen utensils are attached to your arms... you cannot mix up meatballs with a wooden spoon, get in there, get your fingers dirty!

If you're humble and hardworking, opportunities will arise for you.

When you really want to show some love, keep the flowers and say it with spaghetti.

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home.

NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

Falling in love is not the problem

It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

The trouble with women? Elbows.

On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.