Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I’ve always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil – especially for corrections.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

I’ve always been a fan of the VMAs, and I’ve always worked hard just to get a ticket to go to the VMAs.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.