For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!

The great lie that science has given us is that reality is material.

My daughter asked me what it’s like to have children… So I followed her to the washroom every time she went and asked her questions through the door until she lost her S#!T…

The Christian life is more than just commitment to Christ

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you

The top 15 contenders for the Republican nomination own at least 40 guns among them. If we elect a Republican president no one is hopping over the White House fence ever again.

New York has no truck with the past. It expels its dead.

If you don't need God to pull off what you are planning, you are not dreaming big enough.

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.