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

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.

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.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

Success may require a lot of days. But progress only requires one.

When people start getting depressed there’s just no end to it—things just seem to get worse and worse.

Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels.

I never knew words could be so sharp, until the wrong ones cut me

Nature was my kindergarten.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it was clearly a terrible moment in history.

Integrated marketing communications is a way of looking at the whole marketing process from the view point of the customer.