You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.

Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.

Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, “It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

It is done to you as you believe.

Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

Jack Del Rio and myself are very similar except he's really good looking and was a great player. Other than that, we're very similar.

The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.