"Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life."

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one."

"I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere."

"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled."

"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice. ... I have touched upon this matter in a small book which I wrote a generation ago and which I have not published as yet — Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. When Stormfield arrived in heaven he ... was told that ... a shoemaker ... was the most prodigious military genius the planet had ever produced."

"I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."

"Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

"A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety."

"But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on."