The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

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.

Love resides in my heart, but you are the one who tore apart and you are still blaming my heart for not keeping quiet about it

Every cloud has a silver lining. The edge of light that shines brightest holds a sliver of hope for a bright today & an even better tomorrow.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action