The easiest thing any of us can do is give up. It doesn't matter how many no's you go through.

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.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

We mask our needs as the needs of others.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

Mouth in gear, brain stuck in neutral.

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality.

I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

Fear is only in duality. Fear is Mind. When you are your Self, there is no fear.