If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

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.

I do not need a scabbard to sheathe my mind.

A little conflict can create a lot of creativity.

Life is for running at full on, not running away from with a whimper...

My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.

The Russians are the dirtiest players I’ve ever seen.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.

People can snap. People have a limit. And some people are just plain nuts.

Are you negative in a world that never stops turning on you?