“There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.”

“You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.”

“The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.”

“A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.”

“Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.”

“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”

“I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.”

“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”

“The essential ingredient of politics is timing.”