Creativity should be integral to everything that we do. Creativity should also be intrinsic to our personality, if excellence is what we seek.

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.

We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone.

The future does not wait for hesitant people. The more we achieve, the more we realise how much more we can achieve.

Good governance is about nothing more or less than creating happiness. It really is that simple.

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

Helping those less fortunate than us is a blessed opportunity to show thanks for the gifts of life that we ourselves enjoy.

Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege.

Simplicity starts in the heart, away from negativity and pessimism.

A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people’s love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.

To take risk and fail is not a failure. Real failure is to fear taking any risk

I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.

The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him vision, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

This early piece of the morning is mine.

The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion.