I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

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 love books, they're in my blood.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

The universe whispers, “I love you.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

You can't live and write at the same time.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

Who wouldn't want to be in 'Star Wars?' It'd be great.

Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end.

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.