"Sometimes I feel like I'm not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me."

"Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food."

"When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show."

"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."

"It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!"

"Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment."

"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."

"I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it."