My mom, whos been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love. – Rachael Ray
Ive realized that Im more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. Its about saying that you deserve to be healthy. – Valerie Bertinelli
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. – Preston Manning
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. – Ernest Hemingway
