Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

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.

The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.

But that’s what He does. Waits until the darkness seems too deep to be overcome, and then, here comes the light.

By making sad ones happy, we find our happiness!

Who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past.

Memory is what makes us young or old.

I am freaking out! I am freaking out, man!

Just because something 'is' doesn't mean that it should be.

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

What some people wanted was sometimes too hard to get, and the stress of trying was sometimes too hard to deal with... Maybe doing well in life was just too hard for some people.