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

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.

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

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.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.

We all go through our entire lives not knowing. Wondering. Trying.Untile we sleep.

Conscious practice becomes unconscious practice.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years.

One's weakness should not ever be revealed.

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

It's a mandate for you to do in office what you said you would do on the campaign trail.

For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.

So many funny things happen to me everyday I should have a TV show.

The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.