If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

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.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I think the issue of marriage is a vitally important issue on which I would campaign heavily.

Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.

The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

Who lives content with little possesses everything.

Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

I'm going to f---ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f---ing kill Google.