a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

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.

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

All can I say is that exams are damn pathetic

The way you get better at playing football is to play football.

Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.

Outward change comes after we change from within

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

But you're so busy changing the world Just one smile can change all of mine

I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.

Death's but one more to-morrow.