Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

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.

We are all created by desire and we all die because of desire.

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.