But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Every shot that kills ricochets.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after hisor her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste

Whether we choose the path of faith or not, we all must agree that all of life's ironies cannot be by accident.

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

Knowing we’re saved by grace but still living under the law makes for a spiritually neurotic person.

My inbox [showed me] how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.

A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.

The only way to know something absolutely is to experience it for yourself; anything less is theory, speculation, and belief. .

I find Mormons adorable. I love Disneyland and old musicals, and, to me, Mormonism fits right in with all of that.

In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.