I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.

We are not at the bargaining table in agreement to end abuse to our world. We are on the battlefield deciding everyday if we will let this world die or live, by how we contribute to its treatment.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

My kid is not going to wear a flat bill.