I've only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.

I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Don’t be against things so much as for things.

Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.

Scientists are a bunch of romantics.