I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.

The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

I have always believed that you win as part of a team effort. I've learned that if everybody does a little bit, it adds up to a lot.

I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.

I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

o this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.