I believe in a man and a woman being equal. I really believe that we can do anything we set our minds to.

I wish I were closer friends with Snoop Dogg.

When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.

Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.

I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.