What is said is not as important as what [you] hear and what [you] feel.

We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.

Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.

How we live our religion is far more important than what we may say about our religion.

When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.

It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.

What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.

As we follow [the Savior], He blesses us with gifts, talents, and the strength to do His will, allowing us to go beyond our comfort zones and do things we’ve never before thought possible.

We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.

Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

I shall not set my desires on things of the world.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome

Love #music. It will #love you back.

Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.