Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.

The chile, it seems to me, is one of the few foods that has its own goddess.

This is one of those rare recipes, surprising in its flavors and wonderful in its simplicity -- an out-and-out favorite of mine.

I learn life from the poets.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

There's nothing worse than a poorly staged house.

I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water.

Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.