Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

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.

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.

Your destiny is not cancelled because of a mistake, because of a failure. Get back up and go again.

If I feel like I'm going too far in one direction, I just can it. It's a weird thing. Some of my songs might be cheesy; I try and keep it light. It's hard to explain.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.