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.

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.

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.

I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

Windows 10 could only have been a worse experience if I had paid for it!

I do so hate to be forced to be anything than other than what I am.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy.

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor.