I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.

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.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive be thankful for what you escape.

Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

People are moving faster - you can see that in the streets. Partly that's because of the electronic devices, which encourage this.

If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling

Faith that doesn't affect your life isn't really faith.