Every accepted public quote

“Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.”

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that...”

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”

“Money doesn't make you happy, it's just fun.”

“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

“Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow, as the shadow comes with the sunshine.”

“BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE RATHER STUPID AND WASTE THEIR LIVES. HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THAT? HAVE YOU NOT LOOKED DOWN FROM THE HORSE AT A CITY AND THOUGHT HOW MUCH IT RESEMBLED AN ANT HEAP, FULL OF BLIN...”

“I am waiting for those beautiful moments of love and forgiveness.”

“There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.”

“We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.”

“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”

“I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my...”

“Of the things that followed I cannot at all say whether they were what men call real or what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real...”

“Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.”

“My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College.”

“As Adam brought death, so Christ brought life; as Adam is the father of mortality, so Christ is the father of immortality.”

“Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses, he did not believe in islands, he did not believe in God. His father, the ki...”

“Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.”

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”

“Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.”

“Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it...”

“No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.”

“I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!”

“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”

“The way I understand things, the Bible may have been thought out by God, but it was written down by men. And like everything men write down, such as the newspapers, they got the main story r...”

“I have a weakness for anything savory or bad guys. Bad boys.”

“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”

“Courage is a kind of salvation.”

“My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making...”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

“My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.”

“Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?”

“There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.”

“The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our...”

“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed the day My ego shattered, And all the superficial, material Things that mattered T...”

“The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.”

“I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.”

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”

“Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.”

“Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.”

“I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.”

“The overwhelming message of the Atonement is the perfect love the Savior has for each and all of us. It is a love which is full of mercy, patience, grace, equity, long-suffering, and, above...”

“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”

“Never imitate or repeat the actions of others that maimed or humiliated you; learn from these moments so as not to invoke same on others.”

“That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea tha...”

“Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.”