Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

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.

Every once in a while you need to challenge yourself and learn new things.

Support those that have supported you.

Jeremias, my soul mate, I will forever love you.

alcohol played the midwife

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!

The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.