We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

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.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

This dewdrop world Is but a dewdrop worldAnd yet —

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

Chocolate cured just about everything, but being a crocodile's chew-toy was on a whole other level.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

The most important sign in Matthew has to be the restoration of the Jews to the land in the rebirth of Israel.

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

We've learned to see the world in gasps.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.