I think pressure's healthy, and very few can handle it.

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.

The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.

Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off.

The Spirit filters through what I want and shows me who I am.

The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

There's nothing better than having a bottle of beer in your hand in the waves.

When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

A persons portrayal on TV isnt always how someone is.

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.