It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

Healing comes when we move away from the darkness and walk towards the light.

Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.

I'm interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

Choice is destiny's soul mate.

We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.