Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret. - Claire Harding - Boone Holler

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Life is sweetest when it could go away tomorrow.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

Someday each one of us will have to account to our Savior, Jesus Christ, for what we have done with His name.

It's you, so I feel that a person who will understand you, a person who will find you is waiting out there. So just keep on trying your best.

What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

Look it, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.

Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.