Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca.

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.

Time can be converted to anything. It is from that time that everything is made.

In the seventh century the Arabs created a new world into which other peoples were drawn. In the nineteenth and twentieth, they were themselves drawn into a new world created in western Europe.

Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

People are afraid, people don't want to be rejected.

Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.

What is best and most necessary usually happens.

Americans believe in the value of immigration. We are the most generous nation on earth to immigrants, allowing over one million people a year to come here legally.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

So there’s an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer’s code of honor. Is this what you’re telling me?