He who hesitates is lost

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.

There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure.

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique. But I begin to think I was never meant for an easy road.

Skill is fine and genius is splendid but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

When the heart speaks, love listens.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.