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

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

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.

I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

It's an ongoing joy being a dad.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

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

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.