When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.

Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.

You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.

... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why, 'says I, I've got prayers to sell.

Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.

She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.

Both of them loved the earth and the things that grew in it.

Judge not lest ye be judged yourself.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

The problem is, that no matter where you work there's going to be people that are so dumb you wonder how the hell they remember to breathe every morning.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience

I can never go to a clairvoyant. I'd be too afraid of what they might tap into.

Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.

It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!