I think every chef not just in America but across the world has a double-edged sword - two jackets one that's driven a self-confessed perfectionist thoroughbred hate incompetence and switch off the stove take off the jacket and become a family man.

Practice means to perform over and over again in the face of all obstacles some act of vision of faith of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Success is the result of perfection hard work learning from failure loyalty and persistence.

The perfection of our union especially our commitment to equality of opportunity has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said 'In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.'

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love that of the other's bed where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.