We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.

Trust in God. Do your duty. Remember your prayers. Get faith in the Lord, and take hold and build up Zion. All will be right.

You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; . . . but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost is the greatest gift that can be bestowed upon man.

The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great weakness.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

I wish to say to the Latter-day Saints, all that we have to do is be faithful, to keep His commandments, to be humble, to seek Him in mighty prayer, and all will be well with us.

It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write . . . .

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

When we get into the spirit world, and the veil is withdrawn, we shall then perhaps understand the whys and wherefores.

It seemed so much safer and more comfortable to live in the lives of other people - to observe their joys and sorrows with detachment as if one were watching a film or a play.

It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

Gosh, I love saying Booyakasha! I keep finding new ways to say it. I love saying Booyakasha.

Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.

The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.