If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.

There are many people who claim to be good cooks; just as there are many people who, after having repainted the garden gate take themselves to be painters.

Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

Perfection is lots of little things done well.

I'm not hard to please, I'm content with the very best.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

You never hear someone called beautiful who neglects themselves.

Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.

The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

Part of my success is because I'm very old-fashioned.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an artist.