It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

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.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.

I have a problem keeping my mouth shut. I usually speak my mind. I'm trying to learn my lesson.

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Where there is money, there is fighting.

Washington is a city of money. It's a flood of money.