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.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

We do not judge the people we love.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

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

‚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.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Like associates with like.

Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.