Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

You can’t trust very many people.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I’ve managed to gracefully avoid that. It’s hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.