Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

Perfection is lots of little things done well.

I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

Cooking is for capturing the taste of the food and then enhancing it, as a composer may take a theme and then delight us with his variations.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.

The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer.

When you pray, all heaven prays with you. That's a mighty army.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

You always think you can do better. No question about that. In a way, you want to try and do every aspect better.

Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny.