No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

Joking with somebody's emotions makes you cold person.

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.

Nothing in science has any value if it is not communicated.

The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

I find many of answers in the spiritual realm. That in no way compromises my ability to think rigorously as a scientist.

Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind.