No one who cooks cooks alone.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

While small minds were bragging about their material possessions, great minds were busy expanding their assets.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.

Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.

I don't enjoy doing nothing or sitting in my trailer watching ESPN.

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.

I take notes like some people take drugs.