Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.

I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.

When in doubt, choose to live.

Purposefully living a life that glorifies the Kingdom is the essence of our creation

The only time that exists in life is now.

Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

I feel like my purpose on earth is to help other people and give good advice about some of the same things I have gone through.