It's funny because in drama school my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

My father was the son of immigrants and he grew up bilingual but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time but ultimately diversity is a strength.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength whence arises a state of war between different nations.

You have to get along with people but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

The type of cuisine I do especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years is a lot of global cuisine. My strength has always been Mediterranean cuisine across the board from Morocco Spain Italy Greece France but I think now I'm doing a lot of very different cuisines all the time.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like with much more of a sense from our perspective of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts having strength in alliances operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

America's strength is not our diversity our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons airplanes airships gliders and sailboats.