No matter how much you water the ground, if the ground holds no seed then no plant is coming out. Don’t expect the plant to come out unless you have sown a seed

Love is the fertile ground that allows obedience to sprout & flourish

Wisdom is the ability to ignore foolishness

PRUNING can be PAINFUL yet it brings PROSPERITY

Selfish leadership is okay with the failure of the successor so as to ensure that any form of praise will continue to be heaped on them

Know when to push, pull or hold your followers, lest you push them while they are on the edge of a cliff

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash

I dont really enjoy watching reality TV.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.