A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

Look at the footprints you've made.

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up.

Welcome back, Jem.

You must resist negative thoughts, negative criticism and negative influences.

A determined soul can never be defeated in life.

Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore.

Please never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest

If you lose yourself to rage in the complexity of battle, you are going to be lost.

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.

sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?