I don't do my mother's cooking. Because I am a professional and she isn't. Even if she is a better cook.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

If you think well, you cook well.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

Alice: "I'll play you for it. Rock, paper, scissors."Edward: "Why don't you just tell me who wins?"Alice: "I do. Excellent.

Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young.

Listening is a tough skill, but one who practice it becomes The Successful Leader!!!

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

My thoughts amuse me.

I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.

In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.

It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.