Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.

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

I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.