The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.

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.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep.

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.

What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

Never trust advice from a man in the throes of his own difficulty.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

There is a lot of people just shaking their heads and wondering, what was really behind this meeting [of Donald Trump and Enrique Pena] as far as from the president of Mexico.

I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.

Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.