...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

To all you parents out there, don't make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.

I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.

The average age of our members is about 79. They expected them (leaders) to be taking care of everything, and in reality, they were taking care of nothing.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.