If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.

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.

Embracing personal vulnerability is required if you wish to work, play and succeed in the future.

In school you are taught a Lesson then given a Test but In Life you are given a Test that teaches you a Lesson

When I'm on the road, I'll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session.

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.

My whole goal in my film career is to project a positive image on the screen, that I hope people will enjoy watching.

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.

A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.