I tend to take negative comments to heart.

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.

[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

I enjoy raining on parades and throwing stones in glass homes.

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

We must make living in harmony with the Earth a priority. This is our home... the only one we have!

I believe more in concrete spirituality rather than in a spirituality that is divided from the body and from nature.

Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

George Washington had a tough second term.