I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.

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.

Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.

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.

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

My only journey is one within my self...My only path is one through my soul.

I’ve realized is that every time you get something cool for your birthday or for Christmas, within a week it’s being used against you. (We'll be taking this away until your English grade improves)

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

There is no evidence that having more guns reduces crime. None at All.

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost.

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.