Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

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.

what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Only absolute and unshakable faith in God can make us rule over the world

Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who don’t have to.

Not every relationship can be altered to fit.

Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.

Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.

What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.