I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

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.

CHILDREN Are Like ANGELS And On Earth, ANGELS Have No Color.... It's The Society To Blame That Teaches Racism, Turning An ANGLE To A Civilized Beast While They Are Growing Up....

I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

When we were together, she turned me completely inside out.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

This attitude means you haven't met a girl worthy of your attention. You'll want to get caught if the right girl comes along.