Remember this: we all swim in the river of hope and risk, unless someone breaks the dam, and chaos reigns.”Excerpt From: Joison, Peter. “Ellring.” iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

Don't be afraid or too arrogant to surround yourself with people who are doing much better than you, because they could definitely push and stretch you to discover your hidden abilities in life.

I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.

I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame

Arizona has a very, very special place in my heart. I love people of Arizona.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.