The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

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.

Ty swung around. He was obviously fed up with Ben's negative attitude.

All that existed was Jace; all she felt, hoped, breathed, wanted, and saw was Jace. Nothing else mattered.

If everybody in the world saw a therapist, we would have a better world.

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.

What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.

The Eighties proved we don't need liberals.

The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.