Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn't you just pull out a box of Bisquick?

One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. It's fun whether it's baking bread or cookies. With baking, you have to be exact when it comes to ingredients.

Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.

Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen.

Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

When you are filled with self-hate your mind is reversed. Meaning you will love the things that destroy you, and you will hate the things that advance your growth.

You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.

We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust.

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.