He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

We have to allow God to do a work in us before He can do a work through us.

In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his own mind.

Thinking before taking actions is useful only if you are going to take action, otherwise you are wasting time and insulting your mind.

Change alone is unchanging.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.

I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before