It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

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 don't believe everything "is meant to be." I believe God wants to direct our steps, but our free will makes for a lot of detours.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

What's wrong with transforming food?

Go out and preach the gospel and if you must, use words.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.

I'm the best player in the NBA.

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.