Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.