A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

Nowadays, food needs to be healthy, local, sustainable and not filled with too much fat, salt or sugar. It should be slow-cooked and seasonal. That's my vision.

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

I have a very modern way of thinking; the chef is there to lead the team and not just to sit behind the piano.

Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

...differences between the world's Muslim communities are less important than what they share-namely, Islamism, sharia, and the dream of caliphate.

Clothes aren't going to change the world, the women who wear them will

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

As a woman leader, I try to take every opportunity I can to do what my mentors did for me - engaging with young women and take them seriously.

I think there will be linkages between the U.S. and Europe and I think there will be linkages between the U.S. and Asia; that is probably a little further off.

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy.

A woman should not hold on to her man so tight, afraid to let him out of sight. A woman should give her man his space but hold on to his heart