Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

Healing comes when we move away from the darkness and walk towards the light.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

Then come. Let me send you to see if you have lived your life serving a deity or a dream.

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.