Forgive everyone everything.

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.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

Education is the single most important job of the human race.

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

The best way to make money in business is not to think too much about making it.

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.

Plant a memory, plant a tree, do it today for tomorrow.