It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

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.

Your lowest moment and life can be your best if you survive it and learn from it

Maccarinelli thinks he can use me to make a name for himself, but that is not going to happen. He has made his fame by fighting nobodies. I've fought all the way to the top against top contenders.

Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

The problem's always been to deal with the fear.Cos the fear is pretty . . . it ruins everybody really.

It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.

I never thought I was good enough actually to write.

Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.