I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.

Reading from St. John Chrysostom that the life of a bishop should be more perfect than the life of a hermit. The reason he gave was that the holiness which the monk preserves in the desert must be preserved by the bishop into the midst of the evil of the world.

Be as generous as possible" is idle talk, if the generosity of the pastor has not preceded the generosity of his flock.

Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin.

President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.

Anywhere you can lead your life, you can lead a good one.

Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them.

Let it not be in any man's power, to say truly of thee, that thou art not truly simple, or sincere and open, or not good. Let him be deceived whosoever he be that shall have any such opinion of thee. For all this doth depend of thee. For who is it that should hinder thee from being either truly simple or good? Do thou only resolve rather not to live, than not to be such.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?

Torture is like dancing: I'm too old for it. Let the younger ones practice their bravery.

He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old crone.