I use my experience, my failures, my successes, and help people stay focused.

Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

When you're taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is no wrong way... if it comes from the heart.

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.

It's never too late - not now, not ever - for you to pursue your passion.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

There are people out there who want to say yes. That gave me confidence to keep asking.

A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.

Heavenly Father you are all I have got. May your unfailing love surround me.

I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it's always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

They say I have the ugliest feet in the world. I don't care if they say it - I'm not gonna hide 'em!

She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.

Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.