Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach.

If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that's enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that's enough.

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results.

Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.

Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

It is actually a very good thing, if after eight years of coverage the president of the United States [Barack Obama] says that this is a cooperation based on friendship that we cooperated well.

Certainly, packets of sea ice, in say the Arctic, which have failed to fully reform in the last couple of years.

My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

Clones are people two.