"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."

-- C. S. Lewis

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“Writing is the same as music. Itâ€™s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you donâ€™t play is as important as what you do say.”
“I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.”
“I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.”
“When you work really hard, and it's organic and together, you can have more fun.”
“God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell.”
“Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?”
“I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.”
“The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.”

Source : "A Matter of a Few Degrees". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's speech at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April, 2008.

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