Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

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 to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.

It was over before I even had a chance.

I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

My whole life, people have been saying, "Why are you so angry?"

I'm probably one of the most co-dependent people around. That's why I made a movie about it, and I live it every day.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years.

You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.