Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.

Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.

I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Possibility of enjoying life makes death feel terrible.

What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?""Over my dead body.""Could be, Tim, could be.

They always win who side with God.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

I think in most companies you're surrounded by the past. You may have a Web site or archives or a lobby that sort of shows off your work of the past. The future is not as tangible.

Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.

I consider parenting skills, those skills that help children: (1) develop clear and important goals; and (2) figure out flexible and persistent ways of achieving their goals.