When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

Cooking done with care is an act of love.

Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

My main objective was finding my individuality as a vocalist.

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

It was a hard name having growing up as a child. Some kids would call me names like "Birbiglebug" and "Birbibliography" and "Faggot". Some were more clever than others.

What has made me most proud - the things that I've done that I feel the most pride about - is helping people care about making the world better.

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.