I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

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 are no wrong people—only the wrong expression and the wrong perception.

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us.

We are born with magic inside of us

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!

There can be no true friends without true enemies

The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.