The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.

I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.'

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

... the agent provocateur of a good dinner.

Why should the Marquis de Cussy wage war on soup? I cannot understand a dinner without it. I hold soup to be the well beloved of the stomach.

Beef is the soul of cooking.

Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.

Only Give up, When Your Hearts Gives up.(Don't Give up, till your Last Breath)

All who hear are called. All who are called are able.

I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly.

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.

God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.