I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)

All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.

I'm a serious geek. I mean I seriously want to own a unicorn when I'm older . . . or a Pegasus . . . yeah Pegasus sounds better.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It’s a matter of obedience, not emotion.

Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.

Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.