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

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.

When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost.

The darkest clouds are the best ennobling of the sun, because the sun is most wanted under the darkest clouds! The evil is condemned to glorify and to honour the good!

I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.

If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.

Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way."

I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’

God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.