It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

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.

Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.

Remember the 11th commandment. Thou shalt not take thyself to damn seriously.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.

Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies.

I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or dramatic. They're very simple.

I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports.

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.