It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.

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.

Dreams are never too big, you will grow into them.

things like how to tell the age of a tree, the dances of the moon and tides, and the names of the clouds-like cumulonimbus and nimbosttratus-that sounded lie magic spells on his tongue.

There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired.

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

I managed lots of clubs. I had more clubs than Jack Nicholson

All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities.

Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.

When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly.

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.