Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

The future is hope!

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.

The idea of it (draining Lake Powell) is absolutely ridiculous.

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and it doesn't matter how hard I try.