Regrettably, people today don't watch many programs that actually teach people how to cook, so I agreed to do a competitive show that I think will provide inspiration.

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.

After I quit dancing, I tried a lot of jobs. But I could always bake.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me

your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.

Patience is underscored with forgiveness.

Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that’s better than the one you live in.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

Martin Lawrence had no filter, and to me that was the greatest half hour of all time. Martin was ahead of his time.

Idleness induces caprice.

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.