I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.

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.

Nothing can be inside an edgeless universe.

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were.

I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

All power is in essence power to deny mortality.

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul.

There is no such thing as children’s literature.

In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.