If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be; for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness.

Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

I feel like saying 'Damn the Law.'

If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

We will work as a group, we need to be a real team, that is the only way to go far

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

Always do whatever's next.

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.