Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.

There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

Patience is the secret to good food.

It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

You don't get second chances in the real world.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6, 000 others were present for the music.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

That's one of the wonderful things about the whole process of photography - eye contact can be very revealing.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.

True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments.

We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

The growth stock theory of investing requires patience, but is less stressful than trading, generally has less risk, and reduces brokerage commissions and income taxes.

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life