Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Taiki was watching the kings talk, feeling the kind of happiness that can only come after a long sorrow.

The beginning of Eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And the end of every place. What am I?

Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.

I'm a T-shirt-and-Levi's type of a guy.

Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.