No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.

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.

But I shall not know any better then than I know now that he is God’s Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer, and that salvation comes in and through his atoning blood and in no other way.

The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.

We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.

All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.

Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.

Obviously the holy practice (of polygamy) will commence again after the Second Coming of the Son of Man and the ushering in of the millennium.

Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.

Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband.

There is no such thing as neutrality where the gospel is concerned.

God isn't looking for perfect people. He is looking to perfect people.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

If people want to legalize a particular relationship, we need to be careful if that kind of relationship has been disapproved for millennia.

I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

When you live your life acting upon your deepest intuitions, no decision you ever make in life will be feared or a risk.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.