Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

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.

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.

There's no bigger pain anywhere in the world than a vegetarian.

Potential means nothing unless you’re willing to do something with it.

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

Mark the perfect man and behold the upright.

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

No one is entertained by economics.

It used to hurt me in the past years to hear people say they want to leave India. But with the experience of past few months, I can say that we have removed that gloom from the minds of the people.

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.