Being assertive and somewhat really firm has to be backed up with being fair.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

Use time to create the nature of God in yourself

My greatest friend is truth.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God to respect Time.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Look at the world with the vision of peace, love, and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful.

I just do what Clint Eastwood does: Keep moving forward. You can't look back or think about that kind of stuff too much. You just keep making movies; hopefully you make some good ones.

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.