Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.

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.

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

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.

Being happy at others cost...not a sign of humanity.

There are no failures. Just experiences.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

Mistakes don't have to define us. They're how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don't want to be. It's why they're mistakes.

The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.