Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

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.

Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

The saddest thing about falling in love is that sooner or later something will go wrong.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desired.

Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.

America is not the only one who should decide about the policies toward Iran.

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.