I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.

[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.

Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.

I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.

Confidence confers on you the courage to conquer challenges.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.

God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.

Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.

When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.

No great thing happens suddenly.

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.