Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the law of tithing.

People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.

Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.

Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

- I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.- I believe that dreams can become reality.- I believe in true love.- I believe in kindness and intelligence.- I trust life, regardless.

I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole.

If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

He [Peter Pan] is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

I get really into shows, but then I have my brain shut off time.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.