I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

You don't do business with an institution. You do business with people.

One good lesson is not to be afraid of failure because failure was kind of obvious in my life.

[But when, at age 20, she broached the idea of baking cookies for a living, her parents and husband balked.] They said it was a stupid idea, it will never work, it would absolutely fail, ... They said you have no money, no job experience and no formal education.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .