Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book.

I'm a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire.

I am a chef through and through. Everything I do - whether it is cooking for kids in Harlem or cooking in a fine dining establishment - all my days are consumed by food.

Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.

We forgive but not forgotten

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

Money wont create success, the fredom to make it will

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Only free men can negotiate,prisoners can't enter in contracts

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.

Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.