What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.

Once you label me you negate me.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Common sense is not so common.

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

I can, therefore I am.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.