Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

Nowadays, food needs to be healthy, local, sustainable and not filled with too much fat, salt or sugar. It should be slow-cooked and seasonal. That's my vision.

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

May you have strength to complete studies.

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

I hit the ball as hard as I can. If I can find it, I hit it again.

Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

The right don't have time off to go join protest marches as a career. The left has turned that into a bought-and-paid-for, rent-a-mob type activity.