No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we preach.

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.

If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom

The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

It's not a normal recording shift where you do a song and you get a day to tweak it and the third day you mix it. It's like double the work in the period of time it would take to do one.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

Prayer is the means by which God has established for God's people to invite the spiritual into the physical, and the invisible realm into the visible realm.

The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.