If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

Nowadays, food needs to be healthy, local, sustainable and not filled with too much fat, salt or sugar. It should be slow-cooked and seasonal. That's my vision.

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

Loneliness is your only companion.

Strict parents create sneaky kids.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.

Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.

[Texas is] the place where there are the most cows and the least milk and the most rivers and the least water in them, and where you can look the farthest to see the least.

I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.

If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.