The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation to their souls.

Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.

Pondering is, in my feeling, a form of prayer.

While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet.

Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.

The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.

The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.

Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.

The whole problem is spirituality-not finances. Spiritually strong = welfare strong.

There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor and humbles the rich. In the process, both are sanctified.

We will see the day when we live on what we produce.

At time of peace, we should love one another.At war, we should set our minds as the hunters.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

... War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.