I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.

Trust in God. Do your duty. Remember your prayers. Get faith in the Lord, and take hold and build up Zion. All will be right.

You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; . . . but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest gift that can be bestowed upon man.

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.

Everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its able to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

Never let your fears ever stop you from living your life

Practice hard, Train hard, work hard and Play harder.

Nothing is 'just' anything with you

Changing people's habits is very expensive

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.