Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.

A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

Adversities are temporary. What is permanent is what we become by the way we react to them.

We should seek after spiritual gifts. They can lead us to God. They can shield us from the power of the adversary. They can compensate for our inadequacies and repair our imperfections.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

Love is the most powerful force in the world.

Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Being busy is different from taking action.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

The past never leaves you. You carry it around with you for as long as you live, like a pale, stubborn worm lodged there in your gut, keeping you up at night.

The truth feels like it hurts, yet actually it builds. A lie feels like it builds, yet actually it hurts.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.

All our dreams begin in youth.

When people ask me about being Swedish, or if there is something I feel connected to, neoclassicism is the thing I bring up.

Innocent Americans are murdered, and what happens? An entire political party and an amendment to the US Constitution gets blamed.