Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

One truly understands only what one can create.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Understanding arises through making

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was hom

Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.

Regardless of our individual circumstances, we can all enjoy the full blessings of priesthood power through keeping the covenants we have made at baptism and in the temple.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.

WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.