Well, I have a testimony, I may be ignorant, but I am not lost.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

Why do people feel guilty about TV? What is wrong with it? Just this: it shuts out all the wonderful things of which the mind is capable, leaving it drugged in a state of thoughtless stupor.

Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.

[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.

Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

In the trade pact you know that was recently agreed to, I said you have to talk about devaluation. Because that's been their [China] single greatest asset in terms of what they are doing to us.

If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.

There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.

On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.