I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.