As America slept, our constitutional quilt was slowly being unraveled by special interest... I hope you like the cold.

My family came from Ecuador.

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home.

Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.

What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity

There is nowhere pressing to get to because there is absolutely nothing wrong with where I am.

You can never really know what a guru is as long as you are imprisoned by your own thoughts and circular ego.

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

One of my missions was to teach.

In the battle between the heart and the mind, winners always listen to their hearts