If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be; for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness.

Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

I feel like saying 'Damn the Law.'

If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing.

Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be.

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.