Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

All great achievements require time.

Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

We have it in us to be splendid.