She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

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.

And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people."

I didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.