I grew up in a funny way.

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.

We not only need to have a deep respect for children

Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

Now, I am thrilled to be a wife and mother, and I hope to be as good of a mother as my own mother, Carole.

Author Brene Brown - her books inspire me to "dare greatly".

You must surrender before you can guide.

Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.