Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.

You are not competing with anyone else. You are only competing with yourself to do the best with whatever you have received.

One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.

We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.

The choices you make will make all of the difference in what you want to achieve.

Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them.

If you will respond to the invitation to share your beliefs and feelings about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, a spirit of love and a spirit of courage will be your constant companion.

Family is the center of life. It is the key to eternal happiness.

I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?

Enduring to the end is definitely not a do-it-yourself project.

I would rather have 30 minutes of "wonderful" than a lifetime of nothing special.

You could die, " she whispered. "Everything dies, " he whispered back. "I'm afraid of so much more than dying.

Don't stay in this now. You'll fall behind.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

Look at his face. I bet his cornflakes try to crawl out of the bowl.

Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.

People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there