At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.

If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.