How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.
Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.
Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law. . . there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.
All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp. . . ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.
One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.
Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.
It's a shame that people are resisting vetting programs that would actually just keep out those who want to do us harm.
I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.
Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention