“You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.”

“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”

“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”

“Wanting someone else to eat the things you have cooked is the same as wanting that person to know you.I figured eating your own cooking is a way of getting to know yourself.”

“No matter how much experience you have, how many degrees you have, or how well known you have become — there is always something new to learn. Don’t rest on your past experiences. If you do nothing to improve your skills, you won’t stay where you are.”