I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me.

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

Satisfaction doesn't come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

Only love can keep anyone alive.

And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.