Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.

Do not let the word tripe deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!

I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

Do not reject anything because it is new or strange, and do not sneer nor jeer at what comes from the Lord, for if we do, we endanger our salvation.

My children keep me real and keep me honest.

Frankly, we doubt the veracity and seriousness of the United States in regard to achieving results that would be acceptable to both sides in Geneva.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

Triumph cannot help being cruel.

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.

But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.