There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

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.

Today is the most important day of your life. Enjoy it with all of your heart. Don’t worry about tomorrow, leave it for tomorrow.

Discarded lay all the dreamsIn the bin of unwanted thingsTill you came and set them freeAnd, to soar, gave them wings…

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.

Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.

You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.

The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.