After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

Each flitch, each board, each plank can have only one ideal use. The woodworker, applying a thousand skills, must find that ideal use and then shape the wood to realize its true potential.

It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

we know our end A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.

If you can be your own force of nature and have a positive heart, then you can actually do something good in the world.

The passions often engender their contraries.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.

Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.