I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

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.

Our ferocious commitment to our children's safety and success, along with our genuine love, drives us to endure the often unhappy experience of disciplining our children.

You can handle any problem by grace.

Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can.

What we are really lacking today is a real hatred of evil.

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.