When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.

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.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head. But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red. Crying's not for me. Cause I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining.

Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no matter how hard we try to make it something else.

Transparency is the key to good governance & e-governance is the only effective way of transparent governance.