Progression: you can start from where you are.

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

A testimony of the hope of redemption is something which cannot be measured or counted. Jesus Christ is the source of that hope.

Punctuality is an essential trait of the teacher. It is a foundation, not an embellishment.

One of the adversary's sharpest tools is to convince us that we are no longer worthy to pray. No matter who you are or what you may have done, you can always pray.

Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem, " he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Take responsibility for the disenfranchised people

all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

I'm always a bit shy around evil people.

Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

Being human, at times, is very painful, and that leads us to reawakening.

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.