We served Twinkies and Sno Balls at our wedding. We put them on silver trays so they looked elegant - but they were the real deal!

Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.

When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange.

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.

I find that the people who don't eat as much candy are really into heavy protein, like steak. I don't eat that.

I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?

I believe dancing is the best stress reliever.

My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy.

If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears.

My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.

My husband is the cook at our house. I can make dessert and salad, but I stay away from meals. He makes amazing omelets, fish, and grilled vegetables like Brussels sprouts and cauliflower.

Shop smarter and shop less. But please don't let that dissuade you from engaging in campaigns to make real lasting change.

Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.

The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.

Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.