For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

One can never had too many librarian friends.

Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.

People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.

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.

Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be.

Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.

Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.

There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.

Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism.

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

When you start organizing a person's vitamins in the morning because you love them. "Hey, don't forget to take your vitamin C." That's love.

I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.