My family was relatively normal: the kind of normal where my stepfather blamed everything on the Amish, and my older sister thought hibernation only existed in fairy tales.

He gave each wolf its own name, and he told me that they were crossing the Moon River, a place that he said, “Is where all wolves go when they die.

Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

Reading and writing is an escape for me. Where I can imagine and become who I want to be when I want to be. Where I want to be, it's just a matter of having the imagination to do so!

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.

If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

I like to get Honey Combs, and Apple Jax, and Captain Crunch Berries and mix them all together, but I'm freak and I use water instead of milk.

Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.