It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

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.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Who controls the words controls your thoughts.

Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.

What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it

Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.