[ Full English breakfast] it's what we grew up with! It is the one big treat that the kids get on the weekend - it's good family time.

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.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The more things change the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose.)

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'

Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity.

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.