One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much.

You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

When I pair food and wine, I start with the food. If I have a beautiful roasted bird, I might choose a Cabernet or Pinot Noir, or maybe a Syrah, depending on the sauce and what is in my cellar.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.

The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.

you can tell when people are truly happy.their energy is genuine.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.

I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier.

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

We estimate that by 2010 China will have added another 250 million subscribers, strengthening its position as the single largest mobile market in the world.

The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.