I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

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.

Lonely world if you don’t have anyone to rule over.

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer and the next minute I was in parliament.

Go, and never darken my towels again

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.

I believe that every director's films reflect their lifestyle.

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.