Beef is the soul of cooking.

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.

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

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.

You have an ocean of love in your heart. Then why are you too stingy to give it away?

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

As a result of my hike, I am much more inclined to "do" things. I will have fewer "should have done"s even if it means incurring some "wish I hadn't"s.

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

One reason, of course, as a Christian, I believe the Bible is the word of God. I take the Bible as the standard.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.

And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.