Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

It is not the presence of despair that ails you, but the absence of hope.

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Being a mom can be so isolating, and hanging out with other moms is very, very healthy.

And as many of the plates as Joseph Smith translated I handled with my hands, plate after plate.

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.