How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

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 meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run.

I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

I would say that the emotional content of the film [Swiss Army Man] took me by surprise, and sometimes I would probably want to capture the unique tone of it.

The student is best taught who is told the least

You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.

God only promises to bless the nation that recognizes His authority.