We are the nation's watchmen, no other people collectively love the Constitution and honor it and hold it as a divinely inspired document as do the Latter-day Saints.

What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren.

We can find loopholes in a lot of things if we want to bend the rules of the church.

Cheating on self, is a paralysis of being.

Your desire to make art -- beautiful or meaningful or emotive art -- is integral to your sense of who you are.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.

I'm not a natural joiner.

If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time, project its own image onto history.

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.