Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

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

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

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.

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.

I’ve already found the right person. I’m just waiting for her to be ready.

I check every can of Barbasol I buy for dinosaur embryos. I haven't found any yet, as evidenced by the lack of T-Rex screams in my apartment.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

Well, hello. My name is Lin. But if you're dyslexic, call me Nil.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

Nowadays everyone's got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a different way to go.

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.