Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong.

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be; for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

I feel like saying 'Damn the Law.'

If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him

If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us.

Wake ... wake up ... stand up, opportunity does not wait for the lazy

There's nothing better than a 200 lb snatch, if you know what I mean.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.

There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.