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.

[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.

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.

"Glamour" is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way mentally and physically and in appearance and that whatever the occasion or the situation you are equal to it.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.