…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

The Americans are our best friends - whether we like it or not.

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

Tell people what specific action to take.

If women were humbler, men would be honester.

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

"President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."