At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics was not as exciting as being the chef I am today.

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

For me, food is about memories, feelings, emotions, and so is Le Bernardin, and that's why it's not just a restaurant.

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while theyre cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.

My New Year's resolution is to cut my diet sodas down to two cans a day!

I love garlic, and I use it often.

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

Obviously California is fantastic in terms of produce, vegetables.

Well, cooking starts with shopping. If the ingredients are not good, you don't do it. Just change your mind and do something else.

Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

Two things distinguish nonviolent actions from violent actions. First, you don't see an enemy and second, your intention is not to make the other side suffer.

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.