"In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness."

“Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories. People who don't understand books don't understand this. They learn from TV shows about organizing that you should get rid of the books that you aren't reading, but everyone who loves books believes the opposite. People who love books keep them around, like photos, to remind them of a great experience and so they can revisit and say, 'Wow, this is a really great book.”

Source : "Bookshop owner talks book industry, bookswapping and book love". Interview with Molly Snyder, onmilwaukee.com. September 10, 2011.

“When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.”

Source : "And Nothing Shall Offend Them" by David A. Bednar, www.lds.org. October 2006.

“I retired simply because I didn't have the passion and motivation anymore; I was tired. At the time I thought, 'Well, I had a great time, there is the end.' At some moment, there is the right time to call it an end.”

“The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.”

“Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.”

“This vision is within our grasp.”

“People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.”

“Lahm is the most intelligent player I have ever trained in my career”