"It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known."

"If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught."

"I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time."

"On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it."

"Courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make."

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen the more select, the more enjoyable."