Squirrel brains make you smart.

I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the dumplings. I think I just like to roll out dough.

I think America needs us. 'Duck Dynasty' has given some hope to bringing the family back. I want to set that example.

I love having Phil [Robertson] in the kitchen! Not only is he a great cook, but it means less work for me!

My kids would come in from school and sit on the floor in front of the TV and line up duck call boxes and put the stickers on the duck call and then put them in the boxes.

Yes, the wind came up--" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused."And changed us all, " Petra said softly.

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

Decorate yourself with the beauty of love.

It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

I hated the summer jobs I had when I was a teenager. They were so mundane and repetitious, they deadened my soul. On the bright side, it was good training for this job.

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.

One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.

Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.