It was a cookie, not a crack pipe.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

An empty mind is like a mirror that reflects reality in minute detail.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

Any attempt to dismiss a phenomenon that is not understood merely by explaining it as hallucination becomes irrelevant when a coherent scientific theory can be applied.

We have a spiritual community but everyone lives where they want to. I recommend certain areas to live because of their power.

I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.

You've got to change with the public's taste.

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.