I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

To prepare for the mountains develop mind, body, will and spirit as strong as a sword, soft as a pillow and fluid as water.

I love being alone when I Know Somebody make you smile.

Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source.

I'm an expert at finding out secrets, but keeping them- especially a secret of this magnitude - is something else.

I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.

Do you know why they're called mok-gloves? Because they go up to your wrists(pal-mok).

If you don't decide where you're going, life will decide for you.

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.