The past should always remain in the past because the present needs your attention.

I'll be safe and happy when I'm no longer afraid of my own mind.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

I wasn't understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.

Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.