After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93.

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

Remember, it is never the knife's fault.

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For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. Its not too calculated or technical.

I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

I learned from my grandmother, because we were cooking a lot for the farm. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.

From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

Rekindle the flame of love in thy heart.

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.

But glad to have sat underThunder and rain with you, And grateful tooFor sunlight on the garden.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people. I wanted attention.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.