Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be; for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness.

Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

I feel like saying 'Damn the Law.'

If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him

Analysis is the art of creation through destruction.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

Jay replied to the bird, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, my little bird. I'm sorry for leaving you alone. I'm sorry for hiding you away. Only now do I realize how much I've missed you.

In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?

...If I were to feed strangers my information, they wouldn't have enough time to expose themselves to the world.

Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.

It was man who first made men believe in gods.

If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

Communism is just one big telephone company.