This Forest eats itself and lives forever.

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.

If chasing a pipe dream means securing our freedom, then so be it.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise.

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

I like girls who have two eyes

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets.

Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.

I need to go to my yoga class - I love hot yoga!