It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority

If we should take a million of worlds like this and number their particles, we should find that there are more Gods than there are particles of matter in those worlds.

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me

We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the Spirit of Jesus His first Born.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of

Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects

This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.

Be grateful. You have enough and abundant life

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.

Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.