I use the kitchen as a pathway to achieve this happiness.

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.

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.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

Living to impress others is only acceptable by those who haven't discovered their true purpose in life .

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

There is nothing more attractive than a nice smile

Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

A challenge is always important; as an actor, as a human, it's good to face challenges and it's good to push your boundaries.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

That's what animals do all of the time; they watch out, they watch out, and I saw, "This is us now." Us, the world, we are watching out.

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.