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.

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.

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.

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.

First oppression is made into an excuse for terrorism, and then terrorism is made into an excuse for oppression.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

With malice towards none; with charity for all.

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.