I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.