We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.

Integrity is the core of our character.

The temple is a place of holiness. It is the most sacred and holy place on earth and should be treated with the greatest degree of reverence and respect.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.

The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

Anger causes anguish to the souls of all of those who experience the feeling as well as to those who are the recipients of this emotional explosion.

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.

Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

I hear you speak in songs of love, written for me only. And though I wander far too much, the path is rarely lonely.

True beauty can only be found in the true Self.

The honester the man the worse luck.

Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.

A literary achievement of the highest order.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

As soon as you tolerate something, it becomes bearable, and before long it will become common.

As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.