Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

You are not competing with anyone else. You are only competing with yourself to do the best with whatever you have received.

One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.

We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.

The choices you make will make all of the difference in what you want to achieve.

Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them.

If you will respond to the invitation to share your beliefs and feelings about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, a spirit of love and a spirit of courage will be your constant companion.

Family is the center of life. It is the key to eternal happiness.

I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?

Enduring to the end is definitely not a do-it-yourself project.

This is definitely / for the brothers / who ain't here.

Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.

Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'