When we ponder His voluntary atonement, any sense of sacrifice on our part becomes completely overshadowed by a profound sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving Him.

Even if everyone is doing it, wrong is never right

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems

Keep studying the scriptures, keep doing the things that build your faith in Jesus Christ and then notice the wise choices you are naturally drawn to make

You can change. You can 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.'

Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage - in every thought and deed.

The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.

While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices.

The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.

art, n. This word has no definition.

I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.

The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game.

I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.

We will not let governments off the hook. We will look to civil society to help us, to pin governments, to what they have committed to here. And we will report on it.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar.