If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

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.

When we come face-to-face with our fears we are really confronting ourselves.

When I read my writing, am amazed by what I have captured in a given moments.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.

I don't dictate particular styles of dress. I do teach classes in self discovery.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.

I like Kit-Kat, unless I'm with four or more people.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

The more youth begin to recognize that they have a voice, the more change is possible.