There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

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.

My life is circus

When good times turn out way bigger than you first expected, that's when you know you're on a roll!

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much. It was awesome she was backing me up and defending me.

Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.

A picture is a model of reality.

Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.

Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgement.