The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.

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.

I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I’m heaven’s landscape painter.

It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.

Its circumference was tiny, but he had a life, and he would not give it up.

There's nothing like a good conservatory drama school to really get you ready for the work force.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Nothing can touch me now - I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me !

I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.

If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.