Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them.

When somebody says, "You can't," I say, "Why not?"

I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.

If that's what everybody else is doing, that is not what I'm going to do!

The easiest thing any of us can do is give up. It doesn't matter how many no's you go through.

I get very excited when I wake up in the morning and I am just full of oxygen. I say that purposefully. I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything. Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.

We knew we loved making cookies and every time we did, we made people happy. That was our business plan.