The Lord knew I would someday be charged with the priesthood responsibility for hundreds and even thousands of Heavenly Father's children who were in desperate temporal need.

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.

Hard as things seem today, they will be better in the next day if you choose to serve the Lord this day with your whole heart.

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.

If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to the Lord.

Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.

You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.

If the foundation of faith is not embedded in our hearts, the power to endure will crumble.

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

Only when you give from the heart does it make the giving whole.

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.

I'm not a great fan of people who suddenly manage to pull out the whole track sounding perfect from a laptop. That doesn't feel like any kind of show to me.

The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.