It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

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.

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

No one has a right to hoard things which he cannot use.

We have to use our great people.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.

When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're the dumbest white kid I've ever met.'

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.