“If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”

“Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.”

“And that is the story of Alma,
Who knew how to receive and to give.
The body that reached her embalma'
Was one that had known how to live.”

“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?”

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.”

“A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?”

“That's not fair, you know. If we knew when we were going to die, people would lead better lives."

IF PEOPLE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO DIE, I THINK THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T LIVE AT ALL.”

“All these people who say they are pro-life — at least we would see how many lives are being ended out there by abortions.”

“How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!”

“Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.”