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

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

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

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

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.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

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

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.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I’m a fry lover.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

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.

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.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

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

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

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.

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

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

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

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

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

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

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

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

The Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It’s completely pointless.

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.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

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

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.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

But, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

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.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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

Life is precious.

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

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

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.