I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever get there.

My favorite moments are when everyone is laughing.

Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your temple, your city.

Everything we know and love is at risk if we continue to ignore the warnings.

A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.

A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy. It's a meal where we didn't just wolf food down, rather something else happened at the table. That is the goal.

Jesus, do you always show up like this, at the craziest of times and in the oddest of places? I sure hope so.

You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

Real progress comes from people.

Never answer an anonymous letter.