You have to have your face in the food. These days people think a tattoo and a bottle of Sriracha equals success.

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.

Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.

I'd love to visit Thailand just for the street food and the energy of a city like Bangkok.

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

I can't be on the cheeseburger diet all the time.

A man without words is a man without thought.

Every year in my life, I trust fewer and fewer people.

I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.

In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.