When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.

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.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

Living means constantly growing closer to death. Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet.

That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.

Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.

Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology