In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.

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.

Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

I'm like an onion. You can peel away my layers, but the further you go, the more it'll make you cry.

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.

As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.

I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation.

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.

We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.