there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

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.

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

I expected to play well, I expected to lead my team, and I expected to win.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

A good man fights for himself. A great man fights for everyone else

It's kind of like when you get married, you kinda go into it wanting to remember everything. And once it's done, you can't remember a single thing.

It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.