I took a drink. "I guess it's different for you.""Hmm?" "I bet you have girls hanging all over you. Dozens would probably kill to be in my spot and here I am, allergic to your bread.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

He who serves God with what costs him nothing will do very little service you may depend on it.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

I love the magic of the studio.

I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

To progress we must do the work as individuals, but then we must come together and work together.

The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.