Food is a creative, personal journey

When I think I can’t go anymore, I go anyway.

If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.

Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.

If I go a little over the top sometimes, don't worry; That's where all the sunshine is.

Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.

When something is impossible, I do it anyway.

A difficulty journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.

A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.

She knew there was something dark in her then, when she left the alley and the shadows followed.

When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

I’m broken, I have cut myself wide open. I can see my heart and it is not what I believed it was, it is not good and kind and all the things I have always thought I am.

I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.