Time is not money or gold; it is life itself and is limited. You must begin to appreciate every moment of your life and always strive to make the best use of it.

Your heart beats 72 times a minute. Every time it beats, it does so with the permission of its Creator.

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

I love coffee, I love tea, I love the Java Jive, and it loves me. Coffee and tea and the Java and me, A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup.

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.

A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.

The most important responsibility we have on this planet is to take care of one another.

I just create, that's what I do.

I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.