I'm one of three judges on 'MasterChef' with Gordon Ramsay, but I don't want my own show. I'm kind of used to the sidekick gig.

Pasta is the one food I can't live without. It's the food I eat to fuel my running.

Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle.

The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.

I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients.

Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.

The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling.

At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.

Aside from hospitality and delicious food, our [restaurateurs'] job is to entertain people. Restaurants should make people feel special, excited and fulfilled.

Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if it's a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won't need any dressing up.

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

We express our lack of trust in God when we complain

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

I've read that same formula, but as an athlete I'm classified as phenomenal. You could look it up.

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.