Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not.

Listen to and sing the music of heaven.

Young people must learn that none of the exciting and entertaining fun things are worth it if they take you off the path that will lead you back home to your Heavenly Father.

Be a companion with Christ, and he will draw near unto you and be your best friend. There is no better friend than Christ.

Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

When you have self-respect, you have enough.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Value investing is risk aversion.

There's nobody in the world that knows me better than my sister

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines.