The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.

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.

You have unlimited resources, begin your work!

Success is a process of learning, growth, progression and faithfulness.

Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root.

If I don't get off the mat I'll lose the fight.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

I'm always nervous about singing...always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.