Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

Life is not about what you can accumulate. I learned to live when I learned to give.

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Annes in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.

It's good to have plans and dreams, but don't be surprised if God brings you somewhere else.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

The untrue things don’t deserve to be respected!

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values.

Love is like life-merely longer.

People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.