A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!

Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

We better take care of the earth or we're gonna have shitty food, and having shitty food is no fun.

He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

Focus your energy on peace, bliss, and beauty. Life will be blissful and the world will be peaceful.

do you reckon to win the everlasting laurels without a conflict?

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.