If you work hard you'll be happy and if you don't then you'll go to hell!

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

Never buy gold, simply earn it

People? People have been obsolete for years, They've made the world a place where there's no room left for their own kind.

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.