A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

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.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Only job I know well is to spread happiness.

I generally will answer any question about anything.

Have patience, heart.

I travel all the time, and I have two small children.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.