Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

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.

Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.

People's clothes ought to be buried with them.

I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.