I suppose more than anything, chefs have gotten better, which is great news, which makes my life a lot easier. I can be a lot more creative in terms of the menu.

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.

Everything you think today will ultimately reflect in your future. So think carefully, think better.

Good tells us that our agenda is the agenda of the person next to us.

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.

Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

Yalena: Could you always open your door? Kiki: Yes. Fence, too. Yalena Why don't you? Kiki: Hay sweet. Fresh water. Peppermints.

Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.