No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

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

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

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.

Many beautiful dreams die prematurely because the dreamers don’t have enough fuel to drive through the rocky roads and the patience to wait.

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches.

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.