"It is a enduring truth that where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a radiant truth that wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it."

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."

"Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are."

"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again."

"War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet."

"My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there."