We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

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.

Not knowing the name of the tree, I stood in the floodof its sweet scent.

Hold your head high heavy heart.

I wanted nothing for free.Nothing came for free at our place anyway.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.

The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.