The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

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.

De los extraños que no lo parecen, líbrame Dios. Que de los conocidos me libro yo.

The life you live will be enrich with every journey you made.

Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all.

May God fight the battles of life for you.

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

I love to work. You want to talk about natural highs? There's nothing like it.

It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.

When the slugs penetrate, you feel a burning sensation, Gettin closer to God in a tight situation.

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

You're never too old to grow up.