P. H. Solomon Quotes

The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

Despair is part of love.

The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad; and also deeply bewildering.

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples.

I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.

I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.

It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.

Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.

I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.

Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.

Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make.

Everyone is saying, "How is it with Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez?" and I say, "You're forgetting the third star." And they're like, "The car?" It's totally a star.

Obviously, I can't perform; admittedly, I'm terrible.

There is a production and distribution pact, so they help with the production financing and take international territories and do international distribution and marketing.

If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

Art never lies, I believe.

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

You have to be willing to recognize failure.

When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.

Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.

We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.

A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace. Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration.

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

The brain can be seen as a complex machine, like a gooey computer.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.