What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

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.

There’s no way I can care properly for my children if I don’t first care for myself.

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.

The fruit of your life will be what you believe you are.

I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

A good leader makes a good follower.