Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.

Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Recognize the good in others, not their stains.

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Stay on the Lord's side, and you will win every time.

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

You have to drop your sales mentality and start working with your prospects as if they've already hired you.

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.

To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

I think Easterners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their mind about God, and I think Westerners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their heart center about God.

Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.