If you have a sweet tooth, you'll have a sweet mouth when you're done, because all your teeth are going to be sweet.

Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy.

Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It's all about making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes.

If I had to have a favorite chef, I'd probably say I like Guy Fieri.

Remembering that moment stirs something inside -- anger, at first, and then a deep, hollow sadness that ripples through me in its own spiderweb pattern.

How can you introduce error into the Bible? Have a human open it. The moment he reads it, the Bible because weighted down with his biases and expectations.

The last Bible I looked at contained over 2000 pages, and you humans managed to get yourself kicked out Paradise by page 5. That has to be some kind of record.

A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.

Temptation is not his (Satan's) strongest weapon. Despair is.

The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

I am blessed.I am beautiful.I am great.

I cannot give up chasing after happiness simply because there might be pain down the road.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

We will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.

How many men of rank (to say nothing of common people) have been delivered from devils, and healed of diseases!