If it's important, your heart remembers.

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 was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.

A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.

Sometimes I ask myself how autumn smells? My answer: it's the smell of the autumn leaves firework and red wine.

How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

There's a Hidden Valley ranch party in my mouth.

So you're not a prince. She's pretty astute,don't you think? Owww! I'm sorry-- I'll shut up now, Princess!

I think theres a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.