Plodding wins the race.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

The Lord God knows exact when to act.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

I'd rather lose and live in Provo than win and live in Laramie

In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.

No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.