The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

Success is dependent on effort.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.