Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation.

The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.

But I shall not know any better then than I know now that he is God’s Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer, and that salvation comes in and through his atoning blood and in no other way.

The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.

We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.

All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.

Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.

Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium.

No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.

Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.

Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.

You were chasing stones forever, forgetting the diamond within you

I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them.... everyone deserves a chance.... you can never let yourself be a victim.

You can't slice up morals.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.