I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow.

The principle of plurality of wives never will be done away.

It would be as easy for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun, as to remove polygamy, or the Church and Kingdom of God.

My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.

You might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives.

There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Take God from nature, nothing great is left.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

I often say that Arizonans should decide what's best for Arizona.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

The measure of true giving is to share with someone who has no platform from which to speak and may never benefit us in any way. After all, isn't that what true love is all about?

There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin.

There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.