To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

He knew the saying was “the way to a man’s heart was through his stomach, ” he was kind of counting on it working the other way around.

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

Nobody would have been able to understand the depth of my joy and the extent of my happiness unless they had themselves gone through what I just had.

Jihadis! Please go to your imaginary heaven - out there, nowhere. Us, the infidel lot, have helluva lot to do after you leave. Out here.

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.