The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.

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.

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you commit

It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

White men make up 30% of America but they hold 70% of the board seats.

Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.

We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honord.