Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.

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.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

What makes everything one is the style.

To change your horse you must first change yourself!

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

The raw food wave has swept through, and now it is the superfoods wave. The next thing to happen will be super herbalism.

All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.

If every witty thing that's said was true, Oscar Wilde, the world would worship You!

You can't have good comedy without drama in it.

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

I call all chefs cooks. They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.