Food is a lens for culture.

Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.

You knew me before I made my millions, and you were nice to me when you didn’t have to be. That’s the kind of person I want in my corner.

In the morning, a cup of love, kindness and sunshine make my day bright and happy.

Ignorance is the toughest enemy of humans. It is most disastrous.

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.

Helping others pulls us out of our own problems. And so does dressing up like frogs and playing leap frog in a Starbucks. Who would've known.

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.