I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

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.

Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

Please, God give us the grace to carefully obey all your commands, .

If you want to know what's going on, keep your mind in the fridge or it might go off.

I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don't ever save my contacts.

The only thing I have to lose going into this fight is anxiety, fear, worry; all those kinds of negativity.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is really no place I would rather be.

Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.

storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.