restraint equals indulgence

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.

if man's life value for women and if she need man, believe me she can not Broke his swear never in any situation, in any condition.

It’s all just ones and zeroes no matter where you go in the universe.

You’re not a creature in body.You exist as the stars exist, participating in their stillness, their immensity.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.

I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp.

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.