Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

If a man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

I was born in the house my father built.

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be.

It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on

If you're keeping score, win!

You put the Set animal in your locker? Do you know how much strength that requires?” “Yeah,” I said. “I was there.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.