We all make mistakes. The more you punish yourself for them, the harder it is to live.

You were sizzling, like sausages in a frying pan.

I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut short enough that it doesn't poke him in the damn eye.

Sorry we’re late. Liam had to make sure his hair fell just right.

You may exist inthis world--but I exist tooand I will not yield

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people - if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are - you may have lost perspective.

The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings.

You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

But this too is true: stories can save us.

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.