This manifesto only refers to future marriages, and does not affect past conditions.

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 . . . .

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.

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave.

Information is the most valuable commodity on the surface of the earth.

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.

Nothing goes on forever; if one could only remember that.

I feel that you always pay when you are a child.

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.

How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.