I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.

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.

Hindsight isn’t a super power.

Sleeping with a guy isn't the same thing as opening your heart to him.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.

So, technically," Simon said, "even though Jace isn't actually related to you, you have kissed your brother.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

I've proposed a contract with the American voter that will give the government back to the people.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.