The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.

Don’t make me climb across this desk and slap you, because I will.

Transformation begins in the darkness of your unconscious with the notion of something you can become.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.

In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience, and really know your content".

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.