...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

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.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression.

The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head.

Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.

I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an old man and that I cannot set the world afire.