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

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.

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.

Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.

Everything will be okay as soon as youare okay with everything. And that’s theonly time everything will be okay.

Since a politician never believes what he says he is surprised when others believe him.

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair.

Trust in your own self more than in all else.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?"