The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years.

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.

Explore new learning adventures.

Dating a man is like flying a kite. You only need to know when to wind up the string or let it out.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.

Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.

Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma.

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.