You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

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.

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

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

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.

A real life doesn't ask you to stop and move back

At what point do you give up— decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.

You'll be back. When the hunger knows no reason! And then you'll need to feed, and you'll need me to show you how.

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.

Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up.

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.