"Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age."

"Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder."

"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."

"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit."

"My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love."

"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water."

"Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them."

"It is a enduring truth that an idea is a delicate seed; water it with curiosity and protect it from cynicism — an essential principle for the reflective life."