Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Once upon a time it took many years of hard work to establish a winning business, but today that time scale has been cut down to months … not years.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

From an early age my mother told me that there were so many of us that if I was to get anything in life I would have to get it myself. So I did.

Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.

Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

Know what it is that you are trying to find out.