and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

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.

Go for it because for all those moments that you would make up your mind the other might have already rushed for it.

If you have something to say, make it meaningful, all else is meaningless.

Be compassionate with all people.

X-sacred.

She wasn't always a pillar of ice. Her warmth and good deeds were repaid with deceit and betrayal until little by little a chill took over.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

He yearned not to feel... He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him.

To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.