In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

To spin the tale with great flourish but never live the tale is the power of vision strangled to fiction by the fiction of fear.

Life is a sacred dream.

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

The future is only the past again entered through another gate.

Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.

If you have the opportunities of Berkshire, an investment in gold is dumb.

My philosophy on what makeup is...it's very different from what a woman's is. Makeup came from a very psychological place - of the peacock.

Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother.

You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.

A heart that desires to give is the one that succeeds.