Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.

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.

The greatest duty of life is to find the ultimate purpose of life. The second greatest duty is to put a laser focus on it and take action.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

If it has to be done, it must be best done.

Elia Kazan - the films he made were such a big deal for me when I was growing up.

I try to get back for every holiday to see my parents. Love being home and with my family.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

Get a grip, Oreo, and be true to the game.

Stop dragging my heart around.