I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

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.

If you would know these demands of life, you would gain a quicker success, at a greater pace, with less stress than otherwise.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

I think hiphop is a beautiful thing and I embody it and I'm going to live it and I'm going to represent it until the day I leave this earth, because I represent everything positive about hiphop.

Charter schools are just public schools on a slightly longer leash. A dog on a long leash is still a dog on a leash.

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.