Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!

Some people dance with singing rain

The grace of fulfilled dream is phenomenal.

We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

To become truly free, you must surrender.

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

China can be our partner, but that doesn't mean they can just roll all over us and steal our jobs on an unfair basis.

Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.