I like things that are educational and educational. I like things that are inspirational.

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.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

There's never a recession if you work for the government.

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.

Without Greek studies there is no education.

I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans.