Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey.

We believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

Faith, spirituality, and obedience produce a prepared and self-reliant people.

As the world grapples with more efficient ways of managing time, it lures us into more and more earthly pursuits. But life is not a struggle with time - it is a struggle between good and evil.

The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.

Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.

It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

I love funny people. I met and became friends with some of the funniest people ever. Gilda Radner, bless her soul; Martin Short; Dave Thomas; Eugene Levy.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

Your boyfriend is…well, way buff. Monster buff. Lord, king buff. (Sunshine)