What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

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 you can begin with enthusiasm and confidence, you are half way to success.

Matthew would not like this, she had said. He would have liked it even less had he know how much Strike had liked it.

I will fix it. I will make it good. I'll bring back our jobs. We'll have good education. We'll have great safety in the inner city.

When rappers call each other son it leads me to believe they don't take fatherhood very seriously.

I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars...

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Email is the greatest thing.