Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly.

Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.

I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker's dozens! …they come in thirteens.

Here they have no time for the fine gracesof poetry, unless it freely growsin deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soilin a strong pattern.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position I'd have done the same.

In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.

No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less. / Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.

I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

If it's in your personality to get out and talk to people, then you get to see what it is that city has to offer, through the people. A lot of the times with your own eyes you don't get to see that.

Talking about and analyzing sports isn't the same as playing sports.

Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.