The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

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.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

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

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.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it

I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.

Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better And you are young enough not to care.

I probably have the crappiest tattoo -- not only in country music -- but maybe the world.

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

Every couple goes through things.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.