It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

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.

Love awakens spirit of being.

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.

I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like Bourne.

Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]

The Spirit of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.

... when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.