The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. Christ, we're in love. As deeply, as profoundly, as it's possible to be in love.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

I WISH YOU ALL THE REALITY YOU COULD EVER WANT. HANDLE. WANT.

Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Each crisis is different, has its own specificities, and we need to look at it critically; look at each one in its own terms.

I work too hard, I'd be a really bad mom, unfortunately. I can't even keep a plant!

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.