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

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?

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.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.

When you love, you change the world.You bring tranquility, harmony, and joy.You attract beauty of angel inside you.Your heart sings the song of love.

I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.

The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it would be dangerous, considering their numbers.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical.

The game of basketball is not played with throwing punches, throwing elbows.