My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Nothing we do however virtuous can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.