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.

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.