An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.
I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.