I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top but should get you pretty near.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher that's what is unique about them.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then only a few feet away in the cookbook section just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients recipes and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination empowerment and creativity.

I do 280 episodes of TV a year write 15 recipes for the magazine and publish an annual book. With all of that we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.