The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.

The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!

Better a poor steam engine that runs, than a good one never finished.

If we had less people who don't know what they are talking about acting like they know what they are talking about, then that's one step closer to making the world a better place.

You are only Invulnerable when you are in Fear

The most successful people in the world today are entrepreneurs

We weren't so different, Finn and I. Cages come in lots of colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

Never let anyone define who you are or decide who you should become.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

You have to learn to balance work, family, a personal life; it is a part of life.

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.