People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.

If you think well, you cook well.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret.

When I go out on the field, I just put it in my mind that I'm playing for my family.

We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them.

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

It was the most amazing opportunity to work on a period movie and transform Anthony Hopkins into Hitchcock.

In order to win, you must be fully charged. To be fully charged, you must have gas in your tank.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Converting liberals is always a great thing. It makes every day worth living.