A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

I am more proud of Hillary Clinton's alt-right speech than any other moment on the campaign .

If you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.