For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

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 we seek is never what we seek. That is why we may not recognize that we've found what we truly yearn for.

Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

We preceive that God is in all of those we give to.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid.

The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.

To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.

People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.