My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.
Living the gospel and standing in holy places is not always easy, but I testify that it is worth it.
A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.
When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.