I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.

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.

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

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

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

The mind creates those things that exist.

we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome

God is always full of blessings, but your mental attitude towards life is what determines how of His blessings that you will get to receive in your lifetime.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

Even cities have their graves!

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.