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

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

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.

Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.

His absence is so big it's like he's there.

My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

A.J. Bryant is a player waiting to happen. If he gets a little confidence going and a couple of catches, he can really do some big things for us.

Random violence is incredibly infectious