He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

I like to use 'I Can't Believe it's Not Butter' on my toast in the morning, because sometimes when I eat breakfast, I like to be incredulous. How was breakfast? Unbelievable.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.