It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

Not “Revelation” – tis – that waitsBut our unfurnished eyes –

My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward.

The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.

I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.

Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.

Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.

If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.