Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.

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.

We are doing a huge disservice to a dying world if a manifestation of the joy in us is not coming out of us.

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.

There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

I once wore a peekaboo blouse. People would peek and then they’d boo.