The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

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.

I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you.

A photograph can communicate a couple things— and sometimes only one thing—very well. The more you try to say with your photograph, the greater the chance that you will say nothing at all.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.

If you have the passion to do something, work hard, stay honest and nothing can stop you to accomplish it.

There is no need for revenge. Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you.

I don't really say or consider myself that like I won't say "yeah I'm the best, yeah I'm the hottest."

When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.

Being punished doesn't mean you should miss out on being loved.

The attitude of wanting to win-doing everything in your power except cheating to win.