I shoot from the hip.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

Like a spring of pure water, God's peace in our hearts brings cleansing and refreshment to our minds and bodies

I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.

Children must master the language of things before they master the language of words.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.