If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

Look at the footprints you've made.

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up.

Through the realization of the potentials and possibilities within and outside of you, one connects imagination with reality. What could be becomes so.

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words?

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

Jesus on the Cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it, he defeats it with his resurrection.

I wish I had known that it's OK to stand up for myself. That it's also OK to not be liked but to be respected, and I always want to be liked.

I'm always jacked up. I'm pumped up. It's just, I love life and I'm having fun.