Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too.

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.

I know where I’ve come from. I know why I’m here. I know where I’m going—and I have peace in my heart. His peace floods my heart and overwhelms my soul!

It is so simple: the choices we make in our everyday lives, the things we do (or not) for others, define the world we live in.

Trust no one, and let none believe.

Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern and to make others discern.

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.