A different spice is the most interesting thing to me.

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

With sushi, it is all about balance. Sometimes they cut the fish too thick, sometimes too thin. Often the rice is overcooked or undercooked. Not enough rice vinegar or too much.

I'm not perfect. I am not Iron Man.

Any kind of vision needs people.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

I like Mercedes because my wife has been in two big accidents and emerged without a scratch, thanks to the safety of these cars.

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

I travel all over the world, usually 10 months out of the year. I stay at a lot of hotels, and the ones I like best are clean and not complicated. You go to bed and say, 'Wow, I feel comfortable.'

Self-knowledge, a spiritual metamorphosis, precedes understanding other people and comprehending the beauty of being part of the spontaneous interplay of the natural world.

...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ...

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

Every single person in the world has something good about them. You just have to look inside of yourself and focus on it.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.