If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Who seeks shall find.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Well done is better than well said.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.