I am Massimo Bottura. I close my eyes and I want to understand where I am, cooking is about emotion, it's about culture, it's about love, it's about memory.

We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.

Success in life is about obsession

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.