Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Living well is an art that can be developed.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.