We better take care of the earth or we're gonna have shitty food, and having shitty food is no fun.

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!

Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.

I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're going to know that and you're going to be really panicked.

The loss of control you fear is already in the past.

Whether it's dangerous materials being smuggled across the border, terrorists entering on visas or Americans losing their jobs to foreign workers, these are the problems we must now focus on fixing.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.

Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.