I can take my wife out for a lovely evening this Friday, which is a to do. But being a good husband is not an event; it needs to be part of my nature—my character, or who I am.

Others don't make us angry. There is no force involved. Becoming angry is a conscious choice, a decision, therefore, we can make the choice not to become angry. We choose!

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Lowering the Lord’s standards to the level of a society’s inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.

Never forget which way you face

The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner beauty.

Discipline comes from the same root word as disciple, and implies patience and teaching on our part. It should not be done in anger.

May your efforts to develop Christlike attributes be successful so that His image may be engraven in your countenance and His attributes manifest in your behavior

Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.

Entering the waters of baptism is something we do. The be that must precede it is faith in Jesus Christ and a mighty change of heart.

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

I still believe this Life is a good joke. And if you treat it that way, you will never stop laughing.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.

Anything that can happen, will happen.

I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.