Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.

There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.

Don't ever give up. You can't let discouragement get you down. You can always find negative people that will try to discourage you from your goals. You can't be discouraged, and you can't let the word "no" stop you.

Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.

I know I can cook, but the place where I cook... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.