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

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.

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.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it...

I had stopped doing anything for myself. I no longer felt like an individual because for thirteen years, I was one-half of a “we.

A final dirty joke.Another human punch line

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.

I think the actresses who are really successful are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.