The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.

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.

Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.

Western "freedom" is a sophisticated form of control.

There is one basic cause of all effects.

If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set upon a hill, that cannot be hid, or like a candle upon a candlestick.

I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help when we need Him most.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

I love New York so much; I could never live anywhere else, and ESPECIALLY not in my hometown.

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

Cooking is revolution and creation.