You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

Healing comes when we move away from the darkness and walk towards the light.

... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both...

The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!

If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.

The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself.

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.

I will not stop in our efforts to hunt down and kill the terrorists.

I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic.