Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.

Every pain is a lesson.

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.

Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable.

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.

Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.

If you don’t get excited about the gospel, you’ve never really grasped what it’s telling you.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.