Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

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.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.

Stay united in love.

The devil doesn't care about your age when he wants to destroy you, neither does God when He is about to save you.

Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.

It's what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.

I do think that there are people who are able to connect with and empathize with anyone who is going through something difficult, just naturally. I don't think it's a world of effort for everyone.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

You should do something that will make your heart dance once a day. If you can't do that because you're too depressed, then do something that will make somebody else's heart dance.