There are great challenges ahead of us, giant opportunities to be met. I welcome that exciting prospect and feel to say to the Lord, humbly, 'Give me this MOUNTAIN,' give me these challenges.

God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.

Humility is royalty without a crown.

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.

Real craftsmanship, regardless of the skill involved, reflects real caring, and real caring reflects our attitude about ourselves, about our fellowmen, and about life.

Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.

I am convinced that each of us, at some time in our lives, must discover the scriptures for ourselves—and not just discover them once, but rediscover them again and again.

The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.

Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.

Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness.

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.

You shouldn't be shot just because someone yells, "Halt" or resisting arrest or running away from being arrested.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.