First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.

In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

I live a very low-key life.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

[Donald] Trump has many and one of the most obvious is right here in Washington.

Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?