Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.

The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

I'm going to marry you one day, you know." "Is that a promise?" "If you want it to be.

The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.

Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.