Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people.

We believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

As the world grapples with more efficient ways of managing time, it lures us into more and more earthly pursuits. But life is not a struggle with time - it is a struggle between good and evil.

Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey.

I am not a teacher of humanity, I am merely servant of humanity.

A sad fact in life is that you cannot have winners without losers, no matter what you do, it's up to you to make out which one you are.

The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish, ' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.