When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle.

Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited.

What is false about hope?

God put a certain potential into us that is totally sufficient to carry out the assigned task

[H]e had heard of, but given little credence to, magic. There was always someone talking of folk remedies and charms, but it seemed to him the inclination of fools misunderstanding chance.

The past not merely is not fugitive it remains present.

I'm a very lucky girl.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

I hope I've been a good example to the youth of the church.

The fastest way to attain courage is to follow the chosen Way and be willing to abandon life itself for the sake of justice.

Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.