To create something you must be something.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

It is always your next move.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

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

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

But when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.