Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.

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.

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?

Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.

It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Trusting God's plan is the only secret I know in the gentle art of not freaking out.

If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

You have the energy when you're a kid to really fight for rights - that's why kids make great soldiers, right?

The A-bomb is dynamite.

Eliminate the mindset of can't! Because you can do anything!