We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

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.

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.

There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

As the old saying goes, for somebody as famous as you, you don't need any introduction.

My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

As far as I know, my husband never had a baby.