80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan..

In the Italian kitchen, ingredients are not treated as promising but untutored elements that need to be corrected through long and intricate manipula….

I observe a lot. I see a lot around me..

When you can't see yourself objectively, you won't see anyone else objectively, either..

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose..

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life..

Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old ….

You can only control what you can control..

Don't talk yourself into not being you..

I live to serve. except the part about living....

We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong..

That's the thing about faith. It works..

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on..

It is much more rewarding to do more with less..

I think speaking Italian affects your whole body movement. It's so musical and animated and passionate..

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves..

I tend to stay away from the comics..

I got one that can throw but can't catch, and one that can catch but can't throw, and one who can hit but can't do either..

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it..

But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince..