I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to on occasions to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

In Britain by contrast we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans with songs laughter dancing and a lot of wine.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

I've told my children that when I die to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me death is a graduation.