Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.

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.

To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!

In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

I love my curves and I embrace them.

I don't like to talk about myself that much.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.

God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

Who says that your thirties is when you're supposed to be done? I would like to know who made that rule!