Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day.

See, I'm a believer that people are born with a sense of cooking. It's something within them that really gives them the ability to create and to understand flavors.

I like working with fish, so naturally I like seafood.

The best way to make a steak is grilled over an open flame or pan sauteed in a cast iron skillet.

I love showing my personality in my cooking.

Don't ever shelter the feeling of discouragement in your mind, because it only comes to distract one from one's true abilities in life.

Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival.

. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?

There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.

My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.