With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

Let nothing Disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, Though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God; For God alone suffices.

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

If you sent speaking pages, they would be like a brother to me.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.

I'm at my 3 year-olds year-end concert. It's full of very off-key, mostly unfocused children, but this father is still beaming. Must be how God feels on Sunday.

The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.

Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.

I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.