One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

My fantasy is to have a restaurant where there are no written menus, but where you just ask people, What are you in the mood for? Fish? Meat? White wine?

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

Strategic wisdom is an integral and multidimensional intelligence.

Put great car and value into what you do, and that value grows far more valuable as it spreads out beyond.

When you know who you truly are, you can live more freely and in tune with your karma.

I'm very eclectic in what I like and what I listen to. But my favorite musical ever is "The Sound of Music." That was actually one that inspired me to sing.

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

You are going Uruguay, and I'm going my way

It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream.

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.