Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.

True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.

The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ.

We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.

The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.

As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.

A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.

Keep going and the Lord will help you.

Life’s best lessons are learned during the most painful experiences.

A nation’s people must love each other, otherwise there will remain no nation! The world’s nations must love each other otherwise there will remain no world!

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The great are inspired. The extraordinary inspire.

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

I'm a pessimist by nature. A pot head, but a pessimist.

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

So where in the old economy, content was king, in the new economy, context is king.

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.