Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.

English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

Just remember, someday you might be asking for forgiveness. And if that day were to come, you would want it, wouldn’t you?

You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

Be yourself cause everyone else is already taken.

So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue.

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings, Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh.