Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy.

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

Maybe Santa Claus is real. Here's the problem: reality.

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

We need to have an economy that works for everybody, not just people on the top.

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.

God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest.