I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn’t learn and grow.

Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.

Don’t lose faith in the good things, even when life is tough. The good things come in waves, along with the bad.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

Strange, how death had a way of turning a table upside down in an instant. It swept away all the dust that covered treasures, blew the fog from one’s view, knockedaway facades.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Yeah, I play a lot of point guard. LeBron plays a lot of point guard. A lot of people are thinking too much on positions.

I have a suicide impulse.

Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.

Depression effects all of us in different ways, people even kill themselves, but why? You gain no satisfaction and you ruin people's lives.

Dedicated missionary service returns a dividend of eternal joy which extends throughout mortality and into eternity.

Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.