I can't crack jokes because I don't have any.

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.

Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream.

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.

If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.

Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

This revolution is for display purposes only.

Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.

United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.