To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.

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

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.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?""Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

The Egyptians would sacrifice red-headed men on the tomb of Osiris because red was the colour associated with Set, the Egyptian version of Satan.

I think that I have been clear that demonizing and demagoguing about Muslims is not only offensive it is dangerous and it plays into ISIS's hands.

He said not 'Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

Freedom of choice must be brought to bear upon the US Medical practice.

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.