It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.

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.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

It's not my goal to be a leader or spokesperson, or anything like that.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.

You can't get old without living.

The biggest gift I received as a martial artist is without a question the capacity to be in peace.

Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.