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.'

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.

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.

Beef is the soul of cooking.

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

I know you're scared, but doing something even though it scares you is the definition of brave.

Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made.

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

I can look at something that others (might not) and I can see the value in it. I can make that film a film that everybody wants to see.

I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

Let me fall. Let me climb. There's a moment where fear and dream must collide.

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.