Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

Faith is undoubtedly the core foundation of every great achievement.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

Don't say that a loving God is going to send you to hell- He's not. The thing that's going to send you to hell is that you're a sinner and you don't want to admit it.

At the Christmas party, the secretary with the long red hair ate three pickles, and four salesmen panicked.

It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.

There's no better satisfaction than watching the people around you, who have worked day and night to get something right, realising the dream.

My comedy is not mine. It's a gift. I'm not that smart.