Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.

Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.

Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

Hope is a conscious mission. Dream is an unconscious vision.

His hand trailed down the side of her face, brushing back spiraling tendrils of hair. "Come, shei'tani, dance the skiles with your mate.

Find a new and better leader within yourself, for yourself.

A badly written novel can always be shortened to a poem.

Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.

Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

A believer is an evangelist primarily by who he is and how he lives-not by what he says. What he says is important; but unless his speaking tallies with what he is and does, he had better keep quiet.

Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?