As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

You are the Poem I dreamed of writing, the Masterpiece I longed to paint. You are the shining Star I reached for in my ever hopeful quest for life fulfilled. Yes, I am Blessed.

Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.

Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

There is no weapon in the feminine armory to which men are so vulnerable as they are to a smile.

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.