When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

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.

I'll take the cemetery, " Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.

Remember, we are all part of a great story that is really about God, not us. He is the number one character (read: winner), and we are all secondary (read: losers).

You glorify God with gratitude.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not.

There's a crazy energy in Toronto. I think some of that may be from being a border from where I'm from and being so close.

When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

You have to deal with the reality that in the political process, people are going to vote based on what they're hearing from their constituents and others.

You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.

you aren't what you eat - you are what you don't poop.