If we want it, we can enjoy the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best that is within us." --sat. afternoon 4/3/10 lds general conference

Imperfect people are all god has ever had to work with. That must be terribly frustrating to him, but he deals with it. So should we.

The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.

Hope on. Journey on. Honestly acknowledge your questions and your concerns, but first and forever fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe.

Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend.

God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.

God expects you not simply to face the future; He expects you to embrace and shape the future--to love it and rejoice in it and delight in your opportunities.

Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.

And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Face your doubts. Master you fears.

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

We are what we are.

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

Be cheerful -- the problems that worry us most are those that never arrive.

Man can no more leave God out of his philosophies than he can live without his heart or see without his eyes.

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

When something dies is the greatest teaching.