When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.

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.

What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave?

A spiritual man is happy with the whole existence. He says "yes" to the whole existence.

Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless, Be happy while you may!

I guess there's a part of you that always wants to try something a little bit different than what you’ve done before.

I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.

I'm not really interested in courting controversy, but I am interested in exploring issues that other people would deem to be controversial.

If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.