No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

Falling in love is one of most beautiful emotions one can feel. You haven’t lived your life, if you haven’t loved.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.

The lighting changes were definitely the biggest thing and the biggest reason that people don't shoot stop motion outdoors.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.