The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

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.

This is the best time to be an author.

Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader.

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.

Your spirit is the universal voice of love - in you.

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.

Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.