Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

May you live all the days of your life.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Love is a friendship set to music.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

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

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.