Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.

The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit.

The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind.

I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing our moral obligation to not treat other sentient beings as things.

Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.