Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy.

If you have a sweet tooth, you'll have a sweet mouth when you're done, because all your teeth are going to be sweet.

Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It's all about making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes.

If I had to have a favorite chef, I'd probably say I like Guy Fieri.

Remembering that moment stirs something inside -- anger, at first, and then a deep, hollow sadness that ripples through me in its own spiderweb pattern.

How can you introduce error into the Bible? Have a human open it. The moment he reads it, the Bible because weighted down with his biases and expectations.

The last Bible I looked at contained over 2000 pages, and you humans managed to get yourself kicked out Paradise by page 5. That has to be some kind of record.

A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.

Temptation is not his (Satan's) strongest weapon. Despair is.

The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn’t be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.

I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is.

My mom is practically my stylist. My mom's amazing, she's like everything woman.

This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.

If I ever feel that this is dangerous or I'm scared of it, then that probably draws me more towards it.

I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place

My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.