Shunryu Suzuki

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you can not eat.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

The world is its own magic.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. – Shunryu Suzuki

Real practice has no purpose or direction, so it can include everything that comes.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

Chocolate makes everyone smile – even bankers.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

I once made a (it was supposed to be a 30-minute) bean salad that took me like 6 hours

Trump Steaks, where are the steaks? Do we have steaks? We have Trump Steaks.

I go to McDonald’s every day. But I don’t eat much.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

I don’t go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

I love to cook comfort food. I’ll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.