The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

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.

What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.

The energy of our thoughts, words, actions, and emotions collectively create the frequency of our vibrational aura.

When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.

It is through love that the door to Heaven is opened on earth.

Kevin watched the water move down the creek. He didn’t know where it was going but he assumed that it was to a lake. It seemed to be in a hurry, so he hoped that it would get there soon.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

until he looks for you, he's not the one.

This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, Built as it has been in our waning years, A rest afforded to our weary feet, Preliminary to - the last retreat.

Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.