Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

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.

What if I start training my consciousness to know that it is a time and space traveller of unlimited proportions?

No matter how long a log of wood remains in the river it does not become a crocodile

There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

If we lose a couple in a row this season, it will be like the World Trade [Center] is coming down again.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

Expressing passion and gratitude will guide your life. Say it again and again. Say it until you believe it. Say it until you live it.

What is the Heart? A flower opening.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.