Lift up your eyes. The heavenly Father waits to bless you - in inconceivable ways to make your life what you never dreamed it could be.

It's not your circumstances that shape you, it's how you react to your circumstances.

Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for ourselves every chance we get.

Xander could sense more than David's smile. He wished he could be more like that, easygoing. But then, David hadn't seen what Xander had seen.

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.

I will work when failures seek rest.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.