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Mom: Are you finished [with your dinner]?
Dallin: I'm not a fish.
(thinking...)
Dallin: I'm an angel fish!

[Visiting with the sick and dying] is by far the best thing I do to get myself ready [for a game]. Here you are, about to play a game that the world says is the most important thing in the world. Win and they praise you. Lose and they crush you. And here I have a chance to talk to the coolest, most courageous people. It puts it all into perspective. The game doesn't really matter. I mean, I'll give 100 percent of my heart to win it, but in the end, the thing I most want to do is not win championships or make a lot of money, it's to invest in people's lives, to make a difference.

The greatest advantage of religion is to inspire…principles. There is no religion which does not place the object of man’s desires above and beyond the treasure of earth, and which does not naturally raise his soul to regions far above those of the senses.

We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen

While there is nothing wrong with experts, let's face it: there will never be enough of them to solve all the problems.

"I believe that this 21st century will be another great century for America. But to make it so we've got to regain confidence in ourselves.
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"Connect our faith with our feeling about our national future.
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"The combination of faith which leads to hope and good values and hard work produces amazingly great results. Faith in God, love of country, sense of unity, confidence in the power of every individual. These are the things that have carried the American through crises greater than the ones we face today and will, I'm sure, propel us forward to a better place, if only we will return to those values and recognize them as a source of national strength.
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"Your country needs you now, and what you believe in, more than ever."

Dallin: Mommy, I'm a Mormon.
Mom: I'm a Mormon too.
Dallin: And daddy's a Mormon.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure -- these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how.

It's almost impossible to don't explode inside. [sic]

Mitt is so Mormon, he asks donors to stack chairs after fundraising dinners.

I proclaim my knowledge that God lives! His creations witness His existence and His servants hear and proclaim His voice.

We owe to God the same faithfulness that He gives to us. We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.

[Treat] your mind as you would a private garden and [be] as careful as posible about what you introduce and allow to grow there.