My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

Life is not about what you can accumulate. I learned to live when I learned to give.

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Annes in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

To overcome adverse circumstances, you have to learn to overcome your own hang-ups, values, and idiosyncrasies in order to value other people, cultures, and ideas.

It's good to have plans and dreams, but don't be surprised if God brings you somewhere else.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?

changing lives started with changing my own.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

Great people and great athletes realize early in their lives their destiny, and accept it. Even if they do not consciously realize the how, the where, the what.

We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.