Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.

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.

GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)

Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.