I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!

Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

If there are threats to the United States, then I would of course go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of U.S. military ground force.

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.