Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope.

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

When you're sharing a mud hole with a wildebeest derriere in sub-Saharan Africa, that's a living hell.

Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.

If youd asked me after Band of Brothers what thing I wanted to do next, I certainly never would have imagined Southland.

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.