It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.