If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God.

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we preach.

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership

I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

Women empowerment begins at home!

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

Records have always been the most extraordinary form of time travel for me, and that's why it matters to know when something was circulated, and if it had an audience of five or 50,000.

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.