Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

If you like good ol‘ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

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

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

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

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

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.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

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.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

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.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

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.

I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

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.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

I won’t eat anything green.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.