Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

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 am responsible for my life.

You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don't actually need a fully stocked lab.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to trust savingly in a Divine object.

If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?