I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

I am afraid, I cannot and will not 'surrender' to Orthodoxy!!My life in itself is an 'Epic experiment' of nature and new living!!And I am living the 'Great Adventure'..this moment..NOW!!

In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders

Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor

I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'

There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.