A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

So because you are converting it, you are actually conserving it.

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness.

Getting married has shifted my focus, in such a profound way. You just realize, "Oh, I can't be so selfish anymore. There's someone else."

Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.