I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I’m a control freak. If you’re going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I can take a beginner kid that has never danced in their lives, and I can teach them something, or I can take a really advanced dancer, and I can make them into a professional.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

I feel that if Jacques Pepin shows you how to make an omelet, the matter is pretty much settled. That’s God talking.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

The first wealth is health.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

If you like good ol‘ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘