I care for my dogs as if my life depended on them. And oftentimes it does.

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

I was very aware that I was a woman and that the Iditarod was a big thing for women, but I didn't want to be given any special treatment. I just wanted to be viewed as a musher.

Dogs have a lot to communicate to a person willing to listen.

A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.

I do not know the word 'quit'. Either I never did, or I have abolished it.

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

It seems to be most leaders have more conventional wisdom, but creative leaders have better common sense.

The good news is that you don’t have to remove absolutely every single barrier that stands between you and your SoulMate. You just have to remove enough of them.

For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.

The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

As for real chicken soup, I have it once or twice a week.

We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereereeeeees. I believe in miracles.