Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.

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.

In the past people only added to their minds. Now people can become complete and live in heaven if they subtract what is in their minds.

Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

First of all, with Mitt Romney, I was saying to the Mormons - the Mormons are very smart people.

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

We can not imaging the pain, You must all be feeling At the loss of Your loving son But just to let you know You are in our thoughts, At this very sad time.

I really try to keep my personal workspace as tidy as possible. I really believe there's a place for everything and everything in its place, as the cliché goes.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.