Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

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.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens.

U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed."

I think it's interesting that the United States and Australia are two of the most individualistic nations in the entire world in terms of national personality.

You don't have to live with anger, or sadness, or jealousy. You don't have to judge yourself, make yourself guilty, and punish yourself.

I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.