If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. It’s to set your goal too low and reach it

She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

We're here on Earth to fart around

When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.

I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.