What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.

The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.

You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

The true source of happiness is within each of us.

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there, " inside you, waiting to be discovered.

Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.

I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.

Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens.

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

Get a sense of humor. If you don't, it'll be incredibly frustrating.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

Rituals build brands.

"President Monson, I may never see the Prophet. I may never hear the Prophet. But President, far better, now that I am a member of this Church, I can obey the Prophet."

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.