Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

