...the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen.

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

Any disaster is a learning process.

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.