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Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

Remember, it is never the knife's fault.

For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. Its not too calculated or technical.

I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

I learned from my grandmother, because we were cooking a lot for the farm. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it—immediately and without compromise.

Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights)

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.

When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

The tyrant is a child of pride.

The greatest asset of man is man. The wealth of any man is dependent upon the wealth of every other man. Abundance for one is impossible in an impoverished world.