Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

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.

If you meditate on the Holy Scriptures, you mind shall me on the Jesus Christ, the Saviour,

Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy