I really felt that I had accomplished my goals in life. My first passion has always been to be a restaurateur, a good husband and father, and to provide for my family.

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they'll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

I wanna be the ambassador to Chimichanga Flavor Town.

If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

You dont have to eat a whole cheeseburger, just take a piece of the cheeseburger.

No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.

You've got balls inviting me here.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.

We come back to the same people to learn something about how we have changed. We want to be assured that we have changed. We so want our pictures to paint differently than they do.

Hold a retrospective approach in your spirit to figure out your loopholes and try to forge out for filling them for a lucrative self growth

My pen beats faster as I write with my heart

Where do you go when you die twice-lest a thousand deaths?

Technology doesn't have to be difficult to use or complicated. I feel technology is something that's there to make your life easier not more difficult.

Now the idea in the movie world is to make things the same. And in the TV world, the idea is to do something different, so... that's why I'm here!

For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.