Disappointing cakes have often been sitting out too long. They should last just long enough to have the last pieces the next morning with coffee - who doesn't love cake with coffee?

I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.

When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl.

I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes.

If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one.

You can strive in life with courage, faith and hope.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey?

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.

And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things you know you should not do.