The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.

Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.

Nurse Rozetta, I won't let her catch me peering down her sweeter.

The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others.

There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to.

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.