At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

I haven't raised my voice for eight to 10 years in the kitchen. And I won't have anybody shouting. If I hear of anybody having a go at anyone else, they'll get disciplined.

It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.

I used to hate looking at my markings. But the captain taught me they don't mean anything. Because I'm more than the sum of my mistakes.

If you've ever seen album covers for Arab female pop stars, it looks like the designer was paid five dollars to make them, and the extreme femaleness is astounding.

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not - seek within yourselves to find out what you are.

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.

Who timidly requests invites refusal.