What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.

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.

A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.

Don't take purposeless people as your leaders. Their life is like an empty book with a nice cover paper and you have attempted to buy it. Of which use will it be to you for you to read blank pages.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity.

A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.