All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

The Best Part Of Missing You Is, "I Recall Every Single Moment Spent With You."Bt The Worst Part Is, "I Miss You So Badly.

A goodtrap, like a good story, has to arise naturally from the environment.It has to be seamless. If the prey suspects what’s coming, they’ll bolt.

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

End of the day, the quick and the dead are the same. Everyone's just looking for home.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

You are not in this world. This world is inside you.