If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

‚Wrecking Ball‘ is a great song.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

The one thing that ‚Via Dolorosa‘ has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I’d love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Life is a song to me.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

I love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK’s at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha’s rolls. In Mumbai, it’s Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

I did this book ‚Harvest for Hope,‘ and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I love food.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

I always loved that old song ‚Banks of the Ohio‘ – it was always such a man’s song, so I’ve always wanted to record it.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.