I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

Clean plates don't lie.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

One key to student success: Learning requires effort and study.

In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

If you want to convince a criminal to see things your way, start by seeing things theirs.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

There's a reason why Federer and Nadal are so gracious when they lose. They sleep well at night knowing that they've given their best.

Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.

Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.