Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

I don’t think I would run for president.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

It is always your next move.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

Imagination decides everything.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

Finality is not the language of politics.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.