People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.

The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'.

Scientists are a bunch of romantics.

To me, my recipes are priceless.

Don’t be against things so much as for things.

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world.

My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away

Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.

I'm too drunk to taste this chicken

One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.