The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.

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.

that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it getsI wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind

Joy is not something you look for, it is simply something you have to choose to apply.

Child molesters must all think they've got huge dicks.

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

I like Ministry, but I'm probably never going to make a song that sounds like Ministry.

Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul.

From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.

What we need is a generation of peace.

Have faith in your imaginel act.