Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."

Questions to ask yourself: Are you a good teacher? Who would know? You would. Your students. Your friends. Your God. Not a bad audience, that!

The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence.

Hypnosis is a powerful force and in my opinion should be employed only by the best-trained and most ethical professionals for very important reasons.

You do not have to respond to a tiny annoying mosquito with a large hammer. You know what will happen? You will miss and hurt yourself.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us.

A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.