I prefer to remain anomalous.

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.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess

When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing.

If food were free, why work?

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.

You need a relationship with Jesus, and I had never heard that before. So when my mom told me about that, I said, "Okay, let me try this." And so I did.

Prayer is where the cross changes shoulders.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

I cannot overemphasize this, the attitude, the defeatist attitude that everybody on the Republican side had.