I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

What a glorious God!

However difficult death is for us to accept, we must... how would we learn to appreciate each moment if it were not precious? If life were forever?

The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

the prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane, is the ultimate expression of injustice and inhumanity in the society at large.

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.