When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

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.

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,

Follow reason but don’t ignore that gut feeling. We create reasons with our limited knowledge and experience, but gut feelings often come from universal knowledge.

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are.

Those who have the youth on their side control the future.

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me