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

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

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

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

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.

Begin to learn.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.

The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.

We may stop lovin' to watch Bugs Bunny, but he can't take the place of my honey.

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.