We should not accept an evil we can change.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while so Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag And smile smile smile.

And If only I could, I'd make a deal with God.

We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.