and something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world's remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.

I feel like we can do something really cool to this world. And I fear - at twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five - we might forget.

Aging is harder for beautiful people, and Anna was beautiful.

They try to fight the waves, but they can’t fight the moon. They can’t fight the world’s rotation or the bathymetry of oceans or the inevitability that sometimes things just don’t work out.

When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don’t discriminate.

I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.

We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

Now I know not anything that will contribute more to the furtherance of this good work than the bringing of family religion more into practice and reputation. Here the reformation must begin.

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.

If you think that there's anything that you need to do for salvation, then you've missed the point of the Gospel. Eternal life is a gift from God!

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

For God is good — or rather, of all goodness He is Fountainhead, and it is impossible for one who is good to be mean or grudging about anything.

Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying'

I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.

If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.