A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!

It had the tangled floor plan common to all hospitals, seemingly designed by someone who believed in the healing power of watching confused visitors aimlessly wander around hallways.

Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.

Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.

Over time, the games we play can change how we think and what we're capable of. And it's easy to maximize the benefits so the changes are positive.

The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.