“Never read anything that you wouldn't want to read out loud - - to your mother.”

“Wanting less is probably a better blessing than having more.”

“I have come to feel that the essence of life is not what it so often seems to be - working to have, working to get, working to possess. It's about becoming. It's about what's happening inside us.”

“For me I feel close to the Savior when I can do in a small way for someone else, what He would do if He were there.”

“Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.”

“I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to you so that by the end you will think—no, you will realize—that it was all the while yourself arranging the words, that it was all the time words that you yourself, out of your heart had been saying.”

“It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted.”