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.

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.

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.

Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious.

My hope fuels my determination to overcome any difficulty.

Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.

One of the most ignored dimensions of the Iraqi insurgency are the Iraqis themselves who are regularly abducted, held for ransom and sometimes executed.

At the end of the day, you cant have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.

Fraud makes the world go round.

When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.