You never really appreciate a thing until you have to give it up.

You never really appreciate a thing until you have to give it up.

A ship has a soul.

You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.

Wait for the one you love not the one who found you first.

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter was also taken for a ride, but by his successor, Ronald Reagan, over the return of the Iran hostages.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced.

I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I was always royalty. My mother always said, 'I don't know where you came from'. I didn't have their value system. And I always lived beyond my means.

Were doomed to repeat the past no matter what. Thats what it is to be alive. Its pretty dense kids who havent figured that out by the time theyre ten.... Most kids cant afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.

It's our potential for good stuff I'm most interested in exploring, but that has most meaning when juxtaposed with things that can go wrong.

Even though you were radiated doesn't mean you get to have that sort of power.

A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.