They [her parents] still highly encourage me to come home ... but, it's every time I go home I can tell they're disappointed in me, and that for me is kind of hard.

The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.

I know I've abandoned the Amish lifestyle, but I still keep a lot of those beliefs ... I know I've stepped outside the boundaries a lot of times, but I still try to remember what's important to me.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

We give glory to God of Heaven.

For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

The commitment of giving your best at all times, in all circumstances and under all conditions, can enable you to find value in, and lend value to, every experience.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.

I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.

You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.