Mama always did tell a good story, built a solid background, then deftly lead her engrossed listener through a series of doorways, enticing them in before delivering the coup de grâce.

The stories, though, they were all mine.

Why ruin the present by talking about the past?

Cats may have nine lives, but pigs . . . don't . . . give . . . up.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

If you're in a good profession it's hard to get bored because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.

Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself

I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.

Without love no life left on earth.

We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

There is no choice: the Arabs must make room for the Jews of Eretz Israel. If it was possible to transfer the Baltic peoples, it is also possible to move the Palestinian Arabs.