Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

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.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.

Your library is your portrait.

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.

I'm not looking for answers when I show up to the set. I'm just asking the questions, over and over.

A bit of baseball wisdom: You can't steal second with your foot on first.