Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

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.

One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors.

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

Will punk rock ever die? Pal, if you have to ask it's dead to you.

I was in detention a lot.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of our fantasies and so our songs are representations of our fantasies.

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.