When you walk down the street of Kabul your values for life changes, they do change.

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.

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.

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.

Be willing to give up something you believe to be of value to get something of greater value.

Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist.

If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

One believes in what one wants to believe in.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.

Watch the product life cycle; but more important, watch the market life cycle.