I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.

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.

Who are you? What are you? Why are you?

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?