As we prepare our homes to be places where the Spirit is welcome, we will be prepared to feel more 'at home' when we enter the House of the Lord.

When we seek to complete rather than compete, it's so much easier to cheer each other on.

When was the last time I chose to be happy rather than demanding to be right?

We go to the temple to make covenants with Heavenly Father. We return home to keep them.

The best way to strengthen a home, current or future, is to keep covenants.

Making and cheerfully keeping our covenants gives validity and life to the vital sacred and saving ordinances we need to receive in order to obtain all that the Father hath.

We should seek to observe, and then to serve.

Seek to complete rather than compete.

What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]definitely opened some doors.

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.

I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to be bothering God with it. Maybe we should let Him decide these things.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.