A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Even if everyone is doing it, wrong is never right

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

Keep studying the scriptures, keep doing the things that build your faith in Jesus Christ and then notice the wise choices you are naturally drawn to make

You can change. You can 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.'

Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage - in every thought and deed.

The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.

While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices.

The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.

Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.

I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. If I can do that, you can convince the necromancers to pledge themselves to you. Do this or die.

No. She will never be queen.” She swayed toward him, and he felt like he was being encircled by a python, smothered and choked.

Prayer changes things.

this is the upside of already being eternally damned

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

I think there is a spiritual hunger, and I think that people are really tired of getting kind of a two-dimensional take on religion in most of the media.

It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will make Spaniards yield to threats of guns, whoever may be holding them

The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

I could be 80 tomorrow and I'd still be okay. It's all the way you think about things.