The most interesting thing I've ever heard about myrself that isn't true is that I'm not a nice guy.

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal.

Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got to eat the food.

If you don't follow your dream, who will?

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Spice is life. It depends upon what you like... have fun with it. Yes, food is serious, but you should have fun with it.

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there through open heart.

Leadership is a Requirement for Survival and a Prerequisite for Success.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

Know when and how to get out of the way.

I'm very happy to be involved with great filmmakers.

I'm a believer in biochemistry. But I tell people to try only one thing at a time to see if it works. And if you do give a powerful drug to a kid, it better have a big wow factor.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.