I spent several years cooking on a line.

My family came from Ecuador.

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

As long as you remember what you love and why you love it, it will never be far from your heart - or your plate.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

I studied cooking in Spain after college.

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home.

Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

If you're stuck at piano and you're not a lead guitarist or a lead vocalist, you're kind of at a nine-foot plank then and you should do something about it.

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

Love rules the camp, the court, the grove - for love is Heaven, and Heaven is love.

The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening.

Man created God in his own image.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

There are maybe one or two hours a day when I think I can play, but I get over that real quick once I realize the risk and my wife tells me, "Just take a seat."

You don't want to take over the universe. You wouldn't know what to do with it beyond shout at it.