We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.

And now, born from the ashes, she’s a warrior in bloodied black.

That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

It’s not getting to the wall that counts; it’s what you do after you hit it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?