I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

I am not me. I am not my body. I am my love, my kindness, and my service.

You really are like him, your father.""I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad.""What does it matter? It's simply true.

He hadn't "abused" alcohol, but had spent almost four years sitting in a chair drinking jug wine around the clock and looking, variously, at the wall, the window blind, and the TV screen.

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.

A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.

I was such a tomboy. I had absolutely no bosom, and I wore my hair really short - shaved, like a boy.

We learned more from a 3 minute record than we ever learned in school

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

The Eagle, he was lord above