It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

The Book of Mormon is true, just what it purports to be, and for this testimony I expect to give an account in the day of judgment.

Salvation could not come to the world without the mediation of Jesus Christ.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.

Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.

Note to Self – Thoughts design my energy!MythoughtsWILLdesign the energythat movesme!

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time - To let the punishment fit the crime.

A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.