When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

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.

I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter

People reach an age... where somebody elses platform is no longer yours.

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

I was so shy. Instead of waiting in line with other kids at lunch, I'd go to a corner and buy a pretzel and orange juice. I think I had that for lunch the first three years of high school.

Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse.