How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

The depth of our belief in the Resurrection and the Atonement of the Savior will, I believe, determine the measure of courage and purpose with which we meet life's challenges.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

They (american press) always blame America first!

I put the ick in magic.

prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

Fearlessness is a result of faith in oneself and faith in God.