Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.

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.

If you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights. But if you run with dogs, you will learn how to bark.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

I don't believe in hunches. Hunches are for dogs making love.

The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.

I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.