All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

People who are ready to learn are those who will be the best to lead.

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

There is no magic when one no longer believes.

Nothing is so weakening as regret.

They hate whom they fear.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying.