All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

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.

Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one.

The only things that last are love and hate. The only one that matters is love: Choose love. Hate erodes. Love nourishes..

Praise the wise man behind his back but a woman to her face.

Prayer puts God's work in His hands-and keeps it there.

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

Caballine likes me to be masterful. She calls me her stallion.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

An album is a project with which you have to hit hard.