I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism

Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.

The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.

There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.

Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."

Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.

Negative thinking limits God and our potential.

The moment of Jesus' greatest glory was on the cross, dying as our substitute.

I'm very competitive; it's not enough just to have a few number ones. I want to have 200.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns" (After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero' by Mariah Carey)