Keeping the daily demands of life in balance is one of the great tasks of mortality. There is no peace for those whose lives are out of balance temporally or spiritually.

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.

In the scriptures the term light-mindedness means making light of sacred things or not taking seriously those eternally significant things that should be treated with reverence (D&C 84:54).

Failing may not necessarily mean you're losing out - it may be your defining moment. So, dare to fail forward!

I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me.

I'm a record collector. I've got over 2000 records. It's so nice for me to have records that are me. That's me on there.

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.

I think people use fame as an excuse to lose their faith. Faith is obviously my number one priority and I think you need to put God at the top of everything you do.

I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.