We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

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.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

When you tune into your soul essence and are in harmony with the Supreme, you are tapped into your superpowers.

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.

The joy of the young is to disobey

Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

My doctor is a family physician. He treats my family and I support his.

Why does one need a doctor if God has given us our body and we pray to Him for our help?