My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

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.

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.

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

There’s no such thing as free kittens.

We don't get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they're difficult.

Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

The ‘do nothing everything will be all right’ default plan is determined by the IRS and government.

Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

For he that feeds men serveth few; He serves all who dares be true.

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.