No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be; for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness.

Children of polygamists besides being equally as bright and brighter intellectually, are much more healthy and strong.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

I feel like saying 'Damn the Law.'

If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him

The problem is that we are humans.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark

The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman."

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.

The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.