The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

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.

Striving for success with access of abilities and strength leads to clarity, with clarity confidence naturally comes up.

It is the culture that makes the difference. When there is no internal transformation, there cannot be external progress and development whatsoever.

Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.

Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!--I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is--chilly for a man without clothes.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.