Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

It's all right, Ginny. It's over. It's just a memory.

I do not know where the road may end, but I will keep traveling onward.

If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.

There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance's worst nightmare

I always practice as I intend to play.

In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.

Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life.

I know for sure that there is only one step from insecticide to genocide.