The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window

A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

The thing I can't resist is a pork pie. That's my idea of a lovely treat.

Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

I sometimes think the chef end of cooking is not the real end of cooking. Cooking is all about homes and gardens, it doesn't happen in restaurants

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

Perception is reality to the one in the experience.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.

Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.

The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

And here I thought you had a soft spot for reckless young girls.

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.

That win means so much. They got back into the game but I think we showed today that we want to go to the wire. We want to go all the way.

... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds rather than a religion of creeds; ... it is better to work for humanity than for God.