God creates the animals man creates himself.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

when river reaches for my hand, he actually grabs me by my heart. it’s always been like this.

It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule.

He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.

If we want it, we can enjoy the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best that is within us." --sat. afternoon 4/3/10 lds general conference

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.