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

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.

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.

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.'

You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead.

Life is a war

It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.

No, I might not know what's coming, but I know where you're going.

I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them... and, for me, I think that Canadians will trust people who trust them.

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world.

Every piece of music I have composed reminds me of a different time in my life.

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.