We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us.

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.

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.

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.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.

My first solo was in church when I was five.