My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!

His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluous comment, since a religious man respects the power of God's creation to bear witness for itself.

One came out of the church with a kind of comfortable and satisfied feeling that something had been done that needed to be done, and that was all I knew about it.

How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

Often, without being at all aware of it, men judge themselves, not by God's rule, but by their own.

Don't say you miss me when it's your fault I'm gone!

I love going to synagogue on Friday night and being swept in the melodies. Everyone seems more friendly and unburdened by the week and ready to be taken elsewhere.

Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined.

When you ask people, do they believe that we ought to have trade, I think people understand it's important.

It was exactly what I wanted-beautiful distraction.

I could do Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, this kind of stuff [at school]. And kids would give me their lunch money to have these things.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.