No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.

Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.

Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit

The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

Biking through New York's boroughs in 2005, I thought about some old friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey. Though they are imaginary, I frequently talk to them.

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

I've missed you, Ella May

Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know something well enough to make something new.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough.

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.