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.

[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.

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.

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

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.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

It takes a man to make a devil.

Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.

Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.