Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.

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.

Crying all the way to success is better than smiling all the way to failure.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.

The ego is that ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart.

There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

I ALWAYS LIKED MR STALIN.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.

Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.