Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.

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.

Formal education opens the world to you

I tell them that love is always there–that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find.

Nature is a better scientist than any human can ever be.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.

Most of this innovative new music doesn't make money so it's regarded as uninteresting for the business people and considered as "underground".

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

I would really hate to have e-mail. It's bad enough with all the mail I get.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.