I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

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.

Happy are those who evolve from within.

In the guise of frankness many people ruin their world by saying unpleasant things to friends and family. The bad words make them a bad world.

Death is only final when you know you're not going to see them again!

These women, these Shark Tank Mompreneurs are so passionate about what they created and what they are doing, and that just shines through. That's a major reason why they nailed their audition.

At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.

He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.