Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control.

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn’t have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me. No hope, no harm; just another false alarm.