Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A party without cake is really just a meeting.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

People who love to eat are always the best people.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

The best way to kill competition is to partner it

10 square meters of heaven is worth far more than 100 square meters of hell.

In California everyone goes to a therapist is a therapist or is a therapist going to a therapist.

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.

You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

I listen to a lot of medieval music.

Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

Today is the best day for anything and for everything! It is the only door you have; it is the only key you have!

I've always felt somewhat out of place with other kids my own age", said River. "I was constantly reminded by people's reaction to our names and our diet that we seemed weird to them.