Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.

Righteous women have changed the course of history and will continue to do so, and their influence will spread and grow exponentially throughout the eternities.

There is eternal influence and power in motherhood.

Families mean work,but they are our great work,and we are not afraid of work.

Because personal revelation is a constantly renewable source of strength, it is possible to feel bathed in help even during turbulent times.

You are doing better than you think you are. But we can be better.

Nurturing requires organization, patience, love, and work. Helping growth occur through nurturing is truly a powerful and influential role bestowed on women

It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.

When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.

All faithful members of the Lord's Church are equally blessed by priesthood ordinances.

When she told me her age I believed her - why not? she hasn't changed her story for five years.

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

Diversity, that is my motto.

The trouble with women? Elbows.

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

Some children are wiser than adults.

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.