I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, "I have a really great idea for a restaurant."

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.

Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.

I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

Once you go silent everyone starts misinterpreting what your silence says.

Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sin. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

The spiritual always did exist, always will. It is eternal, it is changeless.

The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.