Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

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.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Politics knows no currency.

Why would you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

It is only wishful thinking that makes a sheep seek that a lion feeds on grass just to make it comfortable.

The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.

Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

People always think of Chinese food as the go-to ethnic food when everything else is closed during the holidays, but Indian is a nice alternative. Plus - Indians? Thanksgiving? Kinda makes sense.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.