Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.

[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.

Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.

I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.

Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy

Love me for who I am.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.

Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.

You always fear, when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story, that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson...

The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.

I'm no different than any other expendable player.