In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.

Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.

One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.

Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

The imperfections of religions can only be understood by their unfollowers, not followers.

Next-generation technology, she thought. A few extra processors, and it starts getting a high opinion of itself.

When the heart is full it runs out of the eyes.

Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.