Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

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 have to consciously monitor and maximize our time effectively and efficiently

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

An excellent angler, and now with God.

Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.

I create easily and effortlessly when I let my thoughts come from the loving space of my own heart.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month provides us all an opportunity to reflect upon this communitys many contributions and to celebrate its bright future.

Nuclear energy people perceive the greenhouse effect as a fresh wind blowing at their back.

That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has been accomplished.

If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.