When the chips are down, grandmothers can be counted on to do whatever's necessary. When the chips are down for grandfathers, we just go into the kitchen and get more chips.

to split the very sea into ours and theirs." Border at the BeachAnd More White Sheets

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

You know, I don't want to stand out too much.

We are daughters of our Heavenly Father. We are covenant-making women of all ages walking the path of mortality back to His presence. Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, and empowers us.

Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.