For every teenager I know, having a phone is a mixed blessing, because your parents can press a button and figure out where you are.

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.

Riches will come when you follow Cosmic Ordering.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

I assume I don't need an introduction.

If not you, who? If not now, when?

It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

Fear only has as much power as we give it space.

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.

If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.