Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.

When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.

You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.

... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why, 'says I, I've got prayers to sell.

Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.

She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.

Both of them loved the earth and the things that grew in it.

I guess I figured that as long as I was with people I loved, I was home. It didn't matter where we were or what kind of place we lived in. We had each other and that was enough.

When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl.

Every day I pray about all I do.

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

Did I ever tell you that you are like sunshine in the middle of the night?

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

It's always inspiring to watch live music.

The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.