I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I supported Donald Trump.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

The only shame is to have none.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

The post of honour is a private station.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.