Daniel Bay Gibbons

“During the sixteen years I served as the secretary to the First Presidency, I attended hundreds of meetings where President Hunter was in attendance. In the course of these meetings, President Hunter's voice was heard less frequently than almost any other. That is quite amazing when one considers the popular perception of lawyers as being verbose, but it is not to suggest that he sat mute in these meetings. He was always actively involved; however, he did not feel the need to be heard on every subject under discussion. When he did speak, what he said was thoughtful and analytical.”
― Francis M. Gibbons, Howard W. Hunter: Man of Thought and Independence, Prophet of God

“I find a provision in the constitution of the world for the writer or secretary, who is to report the doings of the miraculous spirit of life that everywhere throbs and works.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Domenico Scarlatti wrote 555 piano sonatas during his lifetime, most of them when he was between the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two.)”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“the worst waste, that of time.”
― Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus