Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are our roots, which give us stability and a sense of belonging - they ground us.

When I say, 'Everybody to the table and eat,' I mean it. That is the glue, the center that holds the family, that gives security. Good food brings everybody to the table.

Italian food is seasonal. It is simple. It is nutritionally sound. It is flavorful. It is colorful. It's all the things that make for a good eating experience, and it's good for you.

It's in the nature of Italians to live life with a positive tone and to celebrate the invitations that come along in life. Italian food is so conducive to all of that.

I was born in Allied-controlled Pola. At the end of World War II, the victorious wartime Allied powers negotiated the details of peace treaties and borders with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland. The Paris Treaty was signed on February 10, 1947. I was born a few days later.

Kids today are really so alienated from the source of food. If they are going to nourish themselves properly, if they are going to safeguard this environment we have and the economy that goes with it and world hunger that goes with it, they need to know about food.

The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish.

My grandmother taught me the seasonality of food. She lived with the rhythms of nature. That's the way we should live. Why do we need raspberries in January flown from Chile?

Food feeds our souls. It is the single great unifier across all cultures. The table offers a sanctuary and a place to come together for unity and understanding.

Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

My favourite Korean food is delicious black five-layered pork belly, cooked over a charcoal grill. And Jeju chocolate, in citrus fruits and green tea flavour, which is famous throughout Korea.

In communism, we never had any freedom - of movement, of speech, of press. We didn't even make own decisions for our lives, our future. We were human robots.

Some people criticize North Koreans and ask, 'Are they stupid? How can they believe those ridiculous things?' But I say, It doesn't matter if you're smart: if you were born in North Korea, you would be exactly like us. We don't know what freedom is. We have never enjoyed it.

On a bus ride through China, my family and I had talked for hours before a police officer boarded to conduct an inspection. My mother and brother couldn't speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.

Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness.

Like every country, North Korea has some very smart people. They could be contributing a lot more to science and other areas, but North Koreans are forced to spend so much time memorising the fake history of our dictators and other propaganda, so are at a huge disadvantage.

Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't trust each other.

When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet. And I grew up singing a song called 'Nothing To Envy.' And I was very proud. In school, we spent a lot of time studying the history of Kim Il-Sung, but we never learned much about the outside world, except that America, South Korea, Japan are the enemies.

I don't think the North Korean leadership is interested in a genuine deal to end their WMD programs or their stranglehold on the North Korean people.

No dictator can last forever. History shows that in the end, people around the dictator bring about change. Of course, a lot of high-ranking officials don't want change because they want to keep power. But there are other good people who want change. I believe they are waiting for the chance.

People who live in North Korea, they die for food, but living in the free world, the cat even eats expensive sushi.