Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Recognize the good in others, not their stains.

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage.

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.

Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Stay on the Lord's side, and you will win every time.

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time.

No ambition which feeds on blood can be a worthy one

A great ship asks deep water.

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

Don't just think, do.

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

There are no days off in our division. Even a team like Tampa Bay can beat you up.

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.