It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.

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.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

Limited by the world, which I oppose, jagged by it, I shall be all the more handsome and sparkling as the angles which wound me and give me shape are more acute and the jagging more cruel.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

I am sure that, after all, any man in my place should set a positive example for other people.