Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.

If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.

Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.

Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.

Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.

You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely

We become the books we read.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

Every journey to something is a journey away from something

It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you. If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.

If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.

How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?