I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.
The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly affect our culture - what our romantic comedies look like, what our marriages look like, what our dating lives look like, and our new set of superheroes.
For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.
In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see
Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.
Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other.
If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.
The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.
Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L. A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.
Inspiration comes from books, music, films and of course, living memories and life experiences, my own and those of people I've known or met; the casual glimpse from the stranger or the life and death of the close relative; to breathe, for a moment, a Chekhovian air, it's all song and ice.
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human - the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience.
What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.
To follow the Savior's example, each one of us must look around and reach out to the sheep who are facing the same circumstances and lift them up and encourage them to proceed on the journey towards eternal life.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
If we are meticulously careful with the use of the days, the years will take care of themselves.
A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.