organization is the religion of the single parent.

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.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

What's the reason behind success and failure. The answer is simple ME

Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

The midwife of history is violence.

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax.

You can’t have two worlds in your hands and choose emptiness.

I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.