If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.

Trust in God. Do your duty. Remember your prayers. Get faith in the Lord, and take hold and build up Zion. All will be right.

You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; . . . but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest gift that can be bestowed upon man.

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.

It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.

Don’t make your job your permanent assignment. Rather, make your work your permanent assignment

Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success?

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water in order to learn how to swim.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!

I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't think it was great, it's not out there.

The players need to remember to run with their bodies above their legs.

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.