It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.

Despair is part of love.

I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.