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.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall? When you realize, you just can't have it all.

There are a lot of filmmakers I love whose work doesn't inspire mine at all. For example: Quentin Tarantino. From his films you can see that he has a wicked sense of humour, and I love that!

The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.