It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.

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.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

I have no regrets. Every experience is the wrong-path is chance to turn to right route for the ultimate travel to the destined-land.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive.

I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

Making a movie is casting a spell.

I'm going to f---ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f---ing kill Google.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.