Preparing for the ups and downs of life.

We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.

Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.

How we live our religion is far more important than what we may say about our religion.

When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.

It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.

What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.

As we follow [the Savior], He blesses us with gifts, talents, and the strength to do His will, allowing us to go beyond our comfort zones and do things we’ve never before thought possible.

We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.

Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

What you envision for the future, out of fear or out of joy, will become reality as the sands of time carve those paths of thought into your mind and soul.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.

I still believe I have a part to play for England.

He hath shook hands with time.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.