"Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them."

"The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church."

"Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve."

"The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world."

"Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire."

"It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk."

"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come."

"The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose."