Those who show no loyalty give up the right to expect any.

You can be spiritual all by yourself. Everybody has a soul. But to be religious, it seems like you need other people, and then sometimes it becomes more about the people than the soul.

Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had.

There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry.

The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes.

The world has a way of dragging down our mood.

I wonder if God hears prayers if the only time you make them is when you’re in trouble.

He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.

Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.

Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.

What [companies] are doing is they're leaving our country, and they're, believe it or not, leaving because taxes are too high and because some of them have lots of money outside of our country.

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

I've made clothes my whole life, but I was just naive about the fashion world. But I think it's successful because I've been really involved. Picking the samples, inspirations, color palette.

You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.

She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.

Be who you are and do that well.

Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.