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.

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.

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.

If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now.

Hope is the assurance of positive expectations.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

You don't have to be straight. You just have to shoot straight.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.