Choas will come, calm will follow, and then it will start up all over again. The secret is to savor the ride.

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.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State

A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things.

The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

This skin is a nuisance. This skin that separates you and me...it is a nuisance.