Love is a choice, love is an act of will, you can choose to love.

If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.

Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.

Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.

You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely

We become the books we read.

Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

I'm not defined by what people think of me. My happiness comes from within.

Women are weak, but mothers are strong.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.