People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

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.

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.

Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being---surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile

I'd rather go with something eccentric--but beautifully eccentric.

Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.

There's a man outside with a big black mustache. - Tell him I've got one.

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty.

To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes