Hopefully, imparting what's important to me, respect for the food and that information about the purveyors, people will realize that for a restaurant to be good, so many pieces have to come together.

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.

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

Remember as you go about your day that you may be the only Jesus some of your friends, neighbors, and family will ever see.

Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

Inconsistency is a great door for the change and for the progression! Never hesitate to be inconsistent!

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.