Beauty is power a smile is its sword.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast or murder thy friend.

First of all plain and simple you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

You hit a certain age and - especially because of TV - the young cooks coming up say 'You're a sellout because you're doing something other than what you should be doing.' 'Top Chef' is a double-edged sword for me: There's a whole group of people who will not come to the restaurants because they assume I'm not in them anymore all I do is TV.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.