I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.

I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings.

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.