America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

She'd been taking care of others for so long that she scarcely recognized herself when she looked in the mirror.

... not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside.

Your imagination is a very powerful tool given to you by the Universe

I've never had an interest, but baseball looks abnormal.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration. ... Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.

How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.