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

To add value to others, one must first value others.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

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

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

Never get out of bed before noon.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

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.

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.

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.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

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

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

I hid myself in food.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

If I’m in the ‚hood, I like Chef Creole’s Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated.

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.

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

I’m a fry lover.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

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

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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.

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

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.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.