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

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.

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.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.

Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.

Parts of our genome simply cannot survive a situation where the environment suffers from the full overload of toxins we currently live in.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

Often fear is the same emotion as excitement. It means you are breaking ground.

I talk by playing, not by words.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Some people are mistaken, they think birds need feed to survive, but they don't. The main reason to feed birds is to enjoy them.

See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.