He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

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.

Are we eager to know the ways of God?

There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

For me, the Internet is the opposite of memory; the Internet is amnesia, it's about today and tomorrow is another day. Printed issues are about recording time, leaving a trace and making it relevant.

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

I very much like "Canada, the adults are talking" stance.