I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

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.

Your life should always come with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top.

Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

If we make a small commitment towards keeping our talent alive, one day it becomes a beautiful gift, which nourishes us, makes our lives complete.

I felt a taste of that other kind of contentment that doesn't come from acquiring information or getting praise or building a resume, the kind that is just there, like a hidden pearl.

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.