Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I'm sorry for the ducks; I love foie gras.

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere.

I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Ask yourself: If I can't avoid it, change it, or make it go away, what if I changed my response to it? What if I decided to stop letting it bother me?

No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.

Theres monsters in all of us, but theres also vulnerability.

Love is a process in which ego is lost and infinity is experienced.

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

Their lost voices must continue to be heard.

I felt that with each movie, Gary [Ross] adopts a different style. He doesn't have one look that's the Gary Ross look, and I thought that was important.