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.

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

Let us be loving, caring, and kind to everyone we meet in this beautiful journey called life. At the end nothing else matters.

Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.

A picture should capture a moment, a place in time you can return to again and again.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization

Awesome is loud but awe is quiet.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.