The role of literature is to confront the darkness within us and to find a way to overcome it.
The ultimate test of our religious principles is not just what we say in our testimonies but what we do in our lives.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.
真正的领导力意味着出于正确的原因做出艰难的决定。