In creating a family, we fulfill our greatest purpose on earth.

Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.

True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.

The greatest service we can provide to others in this life, beginning with those of our own family, is to bring them to Christ.

We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every hour of every day, no matter where we are in the path of obedience.

The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.

As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.

Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.

Would you like to take away the person? Or would you like to take away the heart?

My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations

Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.