For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.
It's very important in a restaurant to really do the right hiring because there's no restaurant that you have one cook and one chef and nobody else in the kitchen. Generally you have five, ten, 15 people with you. So that's really important is to tra...
You know, I never really thought of myself as a 'celebrity.' One of the titles that I like least is 'celebrity chef.'
I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.
Now everybody thinks that once you do Top Chef, then 13 weeks later you're a chef. Nobody wants to learn to cook anymore.
When I'm in Los Angeles, my wife and I go to the farmers' market with the kids every Sunday.
When I was 27, if I didn't put 15 things in one dish I wasn't happy.
art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future...
It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.
Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than...
You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you.
The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish beyond a doubt the fact that electric currents actually traverse the earth's crust. The theory that the earth act...
We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the earth.
To confuse compulsory schooling with equal educational opportunity is like confusing organized religion with spirituality. One does not necessarily lead to the other. Schooling confuses teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a dipl...
Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.
....With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn’t anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time.
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
In the secret recesses of man's nature the grace is given disposing and enabling him to yield. Though the will must at last act from its own resources and deliberate impulse, it is influenced through the feeling and the understanding in such a manner...
Our friend has a creed; and the main tenet of that creed is: There is no God, and is his prophet.
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably
