Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

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.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

She couldn't tell exactly where the words came from. What mattered was that they reached her. They arrived and kneeled next to her bed.

Only when you observe with the intent to understand you will discover the deeper truth.

Ian " she said quietly "I'd rather die than go back to you." "Be careful what you ask for you may get what you want.

Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.

All those years and their moments— Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One more shaky text.

In France, history is paralyzing.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

I can't do anything about the thoughts that come into my head, but I can do something about the ones that stay there!.