No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.

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.

Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again

The unspiritual is a slave to sin.

Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.

I'm a nerd and you bet I love what I do. I am so damn good at it.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.

The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you do feel like you want to match and develop things.

I want to make music that I know that ten years from now, you can put it on and say "This is a great record".