I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

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.

News Flash!All politicians arms are going to be lengthened so that they will be able to pat themselves on the back for doing a great job.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

When I go in and vote, I vote for the person I think will get the job done.I don't vote right-left.

Close your eyes, they'll never see your vision