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

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.

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.

The most important thing is for you to believe in what you are doing.

It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.

A bird must have faith in its wings in order to fly.

Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

Children die every day because millions of us tell ourselves that caring is just as good as doing.

When a good thing goes bad its not the end of the world. Its just the end of a world, that you had with one girl.

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.