Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.
If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.
As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit.
In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.
The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.
Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit--qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected. It is growth along these lines that will make us whole, and will enable the individual to become world to himself.
Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.