I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go.

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

Life is too short to wonder where you hid your waffle maker.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic.

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.

I’ve learned to turn life’s setbacks into opportunities for creation.

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

Now memories have an unusual way of coming back to you in the middle of a day.

Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.

The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation.

I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.

I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

"You’re different,” he said, touching my face. Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that.