If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

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.

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.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

They said, "You'll never find someone like me again!" I thanked them for wishing me well.

The witch knew who had killed her and she snatched pieces of time, here and there, from the business of dying, to make her revenge.

You may not know my reasons, but you can assume I have them and be kind.

Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us, in the administration, that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to.

Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.

You can't rely on anything. At the end of the day, all you have is yourself.

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.

We atheists have to accept that most believers are better human beings.