Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

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.

While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.

You practice with wet balls all the time.

When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He's the Christ, raised from the dead, that He's his savior - that's good enough for me.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

Law Number XV: The last 10 percent of performance generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds of the problems.

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.