Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.

Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit

The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.

. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.

Cheer up, be of good courage.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

He's a male chauvinistic piglet.

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth

Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.