If there was no death, everyone would wish for it.

I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.

In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.

I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!

Only death does not lie.

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.

There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.

A weapon is merely a weapon, nothing more. What matters is how you use it.

It is very annoying, when people notice your weak moments but never see your strong ones.

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.

When we make a pledge, we mean it. We keep our word, and what we begin, we will finish.

For goodness sake, look at those cakes.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.