...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.

I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

...if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said.

Apologizing is like spring cleaning.

In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the sun sink into me before I can start wiggling around and get on with the day.