It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

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.

View Conflict as an Adventure not a threat.

Never trust sheep.

Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

You can’t let your current circumstances dictate what kind of choices you make.

During the past twenty-three years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I’m proud to say that these goals have been achieved.

We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.