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.

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.

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.

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

A life like this develops the comedy sense. You can't play tragedy while you're living it.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.

I grew six inches in a year.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.