O. Henry Quotes

We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.

The Lord makes his servants bold.

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live.

We . . . have to open our mouths and bear testimony.

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: Receive the Holy Ghost. And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of Mormon.

The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work.

Most people stop learning out of fear. They are afraid they cannot learn.

Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.

We need continuing communication from god. One stream of light is not enough.

It is hard to repent, to admit you are wrong on faith alone before the evidence of a feeling of being forgiven and light comes.

Each of us, whatever our talents, has service to give. And to do it well always involves learning, not once or for a limited time, but continually.

There are more temples across the earth than there have ever been. More people in all the world have felt the Spirit of Elijah move them to record the identities and facts of their ancestors' lives.

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still.

One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching.

Not when the sense is dim, But now from the heart of joy, I would remember Him: Take the thanks of a boy.

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

Digital advertising is now larger than TV.

Almost any show that has reviewers behind it, Rotten Tomatoes behind it, will find a way to survive.

My mission is to figure out the journalistic model for the digital medium, finding out how we get the right stories readers want, at the right time and wherever they want to read them.

In the new world of digital, there are no must-read publications any more.

The tech folks have seen WiFi as the way to untether. And what better reason to untether than entertainment content? So there's nobody better positioned than the in-home Wi-Fi purveyor.

You have to have a business model you believe in and like.

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over.

The first reaction is, get defensive. Second reaction is, what are we going to do about it?

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.

I'm no expert in vibrators, but I was surprised to learn that one could fit in that little box.

Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They are on CBS, and he makes a fortune.

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

It's a wonderful city and every American has enjoyed New Orleans in one way or the other.

First come, first served.

I went to school with a guy named Truxton. He and I played football together, and he knocked me out once because he's bigger and strong than I am.

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

Whoever, with an earnest soul, Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels though he miss the goal, And strays--but towards a star.

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

Nations endure only as long as their topsoil.

When I first met my girlfriend, I was super intimidated. I wanted to impress her. I was thinking, Don't mess this up, man. You've gotta play your cards exactly right.

Finding the physical aspect is important to me because that is often how we read people in everyday life.