There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

For A Glorious Future: Leave Your Past Behind!

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.

The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

Nice girls aren't always what they seem.