My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

Group interaction tends to amplify people's initial inclinations

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

For those passionately in love, the whole world seems to smile.

It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.

Things, events and people align and position themselves accordingly when a strong enough thought stirs them.

We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.

Dont lower your standards for anyone or anything. Self respect is everything.

Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.

I think theres too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.

The best way to deal with somebody is to deal with yourself.

It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.