The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

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.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

That kid ain't got no bills to pay, he ain't got no kids; When you're that young to him it's only all about the sport he's playing. You don't have to worry about nuthin' else!

I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.