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

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.

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.

Whiners usually play alone.

Be sure to know who your true friends are, because some of the people that you call friends are actually worse than the enemies that you know.

I could scarcely believe that my new home was engulfed by war before I even had time to find an apartment. It seemed that war followed me everywhere I went.

Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

Why do there have to be men like that, men who enjoy another man's dying?

I listen to everything. My I-Pod's really diverse-from guitar instrumentals to Rascal Flatts to Usher.

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.