For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.

However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.

And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.

I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.

My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

I'm always trying to evolve and I'm always trying to learn new things. The mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

If you piss your pants, you can only stay warm for so long.

One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.