It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.

Trust in God. Do your duty. Remember your prayers. Get faith in the Lord, and take hold and build up Zion. All will be right.

You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; . . . but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest gift that can be bestowed upon man.

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.

For me, I will live so long as I can, however beaten, however maimed. I will do good to those who love me, and harm to those I hate, so long as my lungs draw breath.

I don't mind a bit being labelled a suicide.

He knew...there was no redemption for the damned.

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!