Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

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.

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

Train your Children with Patience, Correct them in Love, Don't Discipline them out of hatred

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have everything you want.

If you have to work at McDonald's, good for you. But on a side note, good luck with the rest of your life.

Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

Video games just can't compare with the variety and intensity of reading.

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.