There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

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.

For the beginning is assuredlythe end- since we know nothing, pureand simple, beyondour own complexities.

There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.

No one goes out to play anymore. Simulation is becoming reality.

...a dream isn't a wish - it's an altered state of consciousness ...

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.

Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.

Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him.

And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.