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

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.

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.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

Misty is the color of rain on a window.

After three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life.

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.

There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution.

Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.