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

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.

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.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

If many good things have not happened in your life, God is not to be blamed

There's none so blind as those who won't see.

Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains.

Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

The big thing is I try not to repeat.

The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.