If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

Racism is a common delusion, a mental illness that can be cured with truthful education.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

I found out water can be drunk straight.

I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true.

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.