Good food is a good trend.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

She was Black before it was fashionable to be Black.

If you can remain aware of your awareness, that is the present state of mind.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity shrewd and not too sensitive is more likely to rise in the world than genius which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.

It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.