There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

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.

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?

Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.

The communists pave the way for him (the Jew).

My diet - I eat nutritionally-balanced meals. I work out. I do yoga. I love my yoga. I do boxing training because it's fun.

I had a friend, who was abused by her dad. I made a vow to myself that I'd never hurt my daughter.

One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.

A man who brags about satisfying 30 women is immature. A real man is one who can satisfy the same woman for 30 years.