Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

If one can, anyone can.If two can, you can, too!

Nancy I. Sanders

Self mastery comes through denial of the little things.

Source Unknown

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

Jodi Picoult

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Ronald Reagan

No brain is stronger than its weakest think.

Thomas L. Masson

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

Gloria Estefan

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

Franz Liszt

You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.

Jill Abramson

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Martina Navratilova

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

Marguerite Duras

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

Clare Boothe Luce