It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.

Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.

Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.

You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely

We become the books we read.

Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casual

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

You can never go wrong with a nice red lip. I'm not afraid to wear it during the day or basically any time because I wear a lot of black and it's a great backdrop for it.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Death is a monster; death is horrible.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.

Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.

Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.